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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 22, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262 "2006-05-22T15:56:15Z")\
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/1 "2006-05-22T15:56:15Z")
Hi all,
all the form helpers can take a serie for options but I cant find any
documentation about them. Any one can point me toward one?
Or at least tell me how I can for example add a function that would be
call with the onblur event from a input box?
Thanks!
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/2 "2006-05-22T16:31:51Z")
On Monday, May 22, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Alain Pilon wrote:
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HTML options just get added to the HTML output as an attribute…
so if you have an HTML option hash like this {‘onBlur’=\>‘function()’} it
will just add ‘onBlur=function()’ to the output HTML in the correct
spot.
\_Kevin
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/3 "2006-05-22T16:44:11Z")
On Monday, May 22, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Alain Pilon wrote:
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Like this for model “post”, field “title”:
text\_field(“post”, “title”, {“size” =\> 20, “maxlength” =\> 40})
yields this HTML:
You can add your onblur =\> “whatever” as an additional option.
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/4 "2006-05-22T17:37:01Z")
Ok, it worked but I have another problem now…
I am using this form\_remote\_tag to manage my form:
form\_remote\_tag( :url =\> {:action =\> “update\_variation”},
:loading =\>“Element.show('search-indicator\_” +
h(@generic\_variation.id.to\_s) + “’)”,
:complete =\> “Element.hide('search-indicator\_”+
h(@generic\_variation.id.to\_s) + “’)”,
:html =\> {:name =\> “form\_for\_” + @generic\_variation.id.to\_s})
-%\>
This form includes a few input fields and I want the onblur event of
these fields to send the form.
Right now, its not working because then I use this:
\<%= text\_field(“generic\_variation”, “name\_fr”, :onblur =\>
“document.form\_for\_” + @generic\_variation.id.to\_s + “.submit()”) -%\>
my browser goes to …/update\_variation insted of just running the ajax
code.
How can I solve it?
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/5 "2006-05-22T17:43:57Z")
I found a way to fix this…
My input box call document.name\_of\_form.onsubmit() insted of .submit().
It works but is there a better way?
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**Author:**  [@alain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alain)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-html-option-works/61262/6 "2006-05-22T16:46:12Z")
Oh thanks!
Much simpler than I expected!