Newbie Question on the Basics

Ruby
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(I hope I’m in the right forum. This is the site linked to as the forum
for Scriptaculous - http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/).

I have a total newbie question. I’m studying a sample application that
uses Scriptaculous for Autocomplete. It does this by putting the
following into the header of the web page:

window.onload = function () {

new Ajax.Autocompleter("metal_name", "autocomplete_choices",
            base_url+"add_metals/ajaxsearch/", {});

  $('metal_search_form').onsubmit = function () {
    inline_results();
    return false;
}

}

And here’s the HTML:

<?php $this->load->view("header"); ?> 
<h2><?= $title;?></h2>
<form id="metal_search_form" method="post" action="<?=

site_url(‘add_metals/ajaxsearch’);?>">


Search by metal name






Enter your function above


<?php $this->load->view("footer"); ?>

Here are my questions:

  1. I don’t see anything in the HTML that calls the JavaScript. What is
    it in the HTML that calls the Javascript?

  2. Autocomplete has to work by calling a function after every keypress.
    What is it in the HTML that calls the Javascript after every keypress?

I guess those are both the same question.

Thanks very much in advance to all for any info!

-Vik

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On Aug 16, 9:19 pm, Vik R. [email protected] wrote:

(I hope I’m in the right forum. This is the site linked to as the forum
for Scriptaculous -http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/).

While someone might be able to help you here, you’ll probably have
better luck in the rails spinoffs forum.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/10

Good luck.

Gordon