Problem with text_field_with_auto_complete Pt 2

Rails
1

Ok so I got the text field to populate a list of what I needed but I
have a problem. When I select an item in Firefox, there’s 4 spaces that
appear before it in the text field. In safari, nothing appears in the
field after selecting. I saw reference to this problem while searching
online but couldnt quite find a solution. My code is almost exactly
whats in the scriptaculous example at
http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax/autocompleter_customized

here it is:

#controller
def auto_complete_for_software_title
auto_complete_responder_for_software params[:software][:title]
end

private
def auto_complete_responder_for_software(value)
@soft = Software.find(:all,
:conditions => [ ‘LOWER(title) LIKE ?’,
value.downcase + ‘%’ ],
:order => ‘title ASC’,
:limit => 40)
render :partial => ‘software_list’

#view
<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :software, :title, {}, :skip_style =>
true %>

#partial

    <% for soft in @soft do -%>
  • <%=h soft.title %>
    • <% end -%>

I tried alot of different things but nothing seems to be fixing it. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. I’m almost there :slight_smile:

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2008/4/10, Mark Mr [email protected]:

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On Apr 10, 2008, at 15:54 , Mark Mr wrote:

 :order => 'title ASC',

<% for soft in @soft do -%>

  • <%=h soft.title %>
    • <% end -%>

    I tried alot of different things but nothing seems to be fixing it.
    Any
    help would be greatly appreciated. I’m almost there :slight_smile:

    Looks correct at first sight. Have you inspected the Ajax response
    with Firebug? Does it look right?

    – fxn

    4

    Xavier N. wrote:

    On Apr 10, 2008, at 15:54 , Mark Mr wrote:

     :order => 'title ASC',

    <% for soft in @soft do -%>

  • <%=h soft.title %>
    • <% end -%>

    I tried alot of different things but nothing seems to be fixing it.
    Any
    help would be greatly appreciated. I’m almost there :slight_smile:

    Looks correct at first sight. Have you inspected the Ajax response
    with Firebug? Does it look right?

    – fxn

    Yeah, the Ajax response is the list of elements when you type something
    in such as

    • Windows XP Home
    • Windows XP Pro

    I just dont know why its not inputting the value properly into the text
    box. One thing i noticed is when I look at the html, the textbox looks
    like this

    the autocomplete attribute is set to off, not sure if that has any
    significance to this though.

    5

    On Apr 10, 2008, at 21:47 , Mark Mr wrote:

    <% end -%>

    New partial:

      <% for soft in @soft do -%>
    • <%=h soft.title %>
      • <% end -%>

    I guess the problem then was the spaces between the opening

  • and
    the content. The spaces between LIs themselves and the ones between UL
    and LIs are ignored for certain.

    – fxn

    • 6

    Ok I just figured it out if anyone else has this problem. Apparently you
    need to have the partial all on one line with no spaces between
    elements.

    Old partial:

      <% for soft in @soft do -%>
    • <%=h soft.title %>
      • <% end -%>

    New partial:

      <% for soft in @soft do -%>
    • <%=h soft.title %>
      • <% end -%>

    Now it works properly. :slight_smile: