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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 11, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064 "2006-06-11T14:13:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/1 "2006-06-11T14:13:44Z")
Hi,
when doing:
render :update do |page|
page.replace\_html ‘suggested\_contractors’, :partial =\>
‘contractors’
page.visual\_effect :highlight, ‘suggested\_contractors’
end
I got js as output, it is not executed, return html _contains_:
try { Element.update(“suggested\_contractors”, "
\n 12345678910\n
\n
"); new Effect.Highlight(“suggested\_contractors”,{}); } catch (e) {
alert(‘RJS error:\n\n’ + e.toString());
alert(‘Element.update(“suggested\_contractors”, "
\n 12345678910\n
\n
");\nnew Effect.Highlight(“suggested\_contractors”,{});’); throw e }
Any idea?
Thank you,
Jean-Etienne www.novAgora.hu
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/2 "2006-06-11T20:14:13Z")
I’ll bet the content-type isn’t getting set correctly.
Are you setting it explicity in a filter somewhere,
accidentally overriding the correct value?
–
– Tom M.
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/3 "2006-06-12T02:48:18Z")
Or, you’re linking to the call with a link\_to instead of link\_to\_remote.
Been there, lost lots of hair.
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/4 "2006-06-12T08:34:19Z")
oh…maybe you forgot to include
javascript\_include\_tag :defaults
in your layout
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/5 "2006-06-12T12:08:01Z")
Be sure that you don’t specify an update action twice, i.e. in an rjs
template and a link\_to\_remote. If you have a link\_to\_remote :update =\>
“mydiv” , AND you have page.update\_html “mydiv” … in an rjs file …
then this will happen! I hope I recall that correctly, but go looking
for such scenarios ,
cheers
Martin
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/6 "2006-06-14T10:33:27Z")
Quote from RJS Templates for Rails:
“Don’t Use the :update Option with RJS Calls
Never use the :update option when making remote calls to actions that
render
RJS templates. The :update option instructs Rails to generate an
Ajax.Updater Prototype object instead of an Ajax.Request object. The
Ajax.Updater updates a single DOM element with the contents of the
HTML response. RJS templates return JavaScript to the browser, which
must
be evaluated to produce the desired effects.”
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**Author:**  [@Jean-Etienne](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-Etienne)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-update-html-not-executed/63064/7 "2006-06-12T17:14:38Z")
Martin G. wrote:
> Be sure that you don’t specify an update action twice, i.e. in an rjs
> template and a link\_to\_remote. If you have a link\_to\_remote :update =\>
> “mydiv” , AND you have page.update\_html “mydiv” … in an rjs file …
> then this will happen! I hope I recall that correctly, but go looking
> for such scenarios ,
>
> cheers
> Martin
That was the problem.
Thank you