Ready to call this a bug

Rails
1

I’ve been trying to get a handle on AJAX today and am ready to call
“BUG!”

I started with the code from Curt’s “AJAX on Rails”. It used
<ul=“my_list”> and

  • and worked fine. Except I need a table instead
    of a list. So I did the simplest thing that I thought could possibly
    work.

    In the view, I changed the :position attribute from “top” to “after”,
    the

      to ,
    • to
      • and added a ”

      In Firefox, it works great. Having loaded Firebug, I can see the HTML
      and I get exactly what I expect. Every time I enter something in the
      field and click the button I get a new

      added to
      the table.

      In IE, nothing gets added to the table. I added the developer tool bar
      to IE and confirmed this. Nothing, not even something wrong, is getting
      added.

      I believe this may be related to the way IE handles things vis-a-vis DOM
      vs. their Table Object Model. They explain at

      I would really really appreciate it if someone much more knowledgeable
      than I would take a look and see if this is something I can work around
      and still use prototype, or if I’ve got to take some convoluted MS path
      to working with tables.

      Thanks in advance for any assistance. I’ll be happy to send the code if
      it would assist.

      Best regards,
      Bill

      to hold the text. In
      the controller, I changed the render_text argument from “
    • …
      • ”
      to “
      …
      text
    • 2

    I remember reading on this forum that IE doesn’t support DOM
    manupulation of
    tables.

    3

    Well, I know that script.actulo.us/prototype can add rows to a

    in IE.

    Try:

    ...

    If you have ever wanted to use in the “body” section of a table,
    but styled differently from the in the “heading” section, then
    you should also use around the actual heading
    section (and, yes, for the footer which doesn’t have to be
    last either).

    -Rob

    Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
    [email protected]
    +1 513-295-4739

    4

    Hallelujah! Pass the chicken!!!

    Thanks, Rob. After spending time on the MS developer site reviewing
    their “How to create dynamic tables”, I’d had the same thought and tried
    exactly that first thing this morning. Got no joy. Gave up, figuring MS
    had screwed me again. Your email got me back on it. Turned out I
    needed to change one more thing. In the form_remote_tag, I had to
    change :position => ‘after’ to :position => ‘bottom’. Many, many, many
    thanks. Expect public attribution for the help.

    Best regards,
    Bill
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Rob B.
    To: [email protected]
    Sent: 2006-04-04 9:44 AM
    Subject: Re: [Rails] Ready to call this a bug

    Well, I know that script.actulo.us/prototype can add rows to a
    in IE.

    Try:

    ...

    If you have ever wanted to use in the “body” section of a table,
    but styled differently from the in the “heading” section, then you
    should also use around the actual heading section
    (and, yes, for the footer which doesn’t have to be last either).

    -Rob

    Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
    [email protected]
    +1 513-295-4739

    On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Sathish K. N wrote:

    I remember reading on this forum that IE doesn't support DOM

    manupulation of tables.

    On 4/3/06, Bill W. <[email protected]> wrote:
  I've been trying to get a handle on AJAX today and am ready to

    call “BUG!”

      I started with the code from Curt's "AJAX on Rails".  It used

    <ul=“my_list”> and

  • and worked fine. Except I need a table instead
    of a list. So I did the simplest thing that I thought could possibly
    work.

      In the view, I changed the :position attribute from "top" to

    “after”, the

      to ,
    • to
      • and added a ”

      In Firefox, it works great.  Having loaded Firebug, I can see the

    HTML and I get exactly what I expect. Every time I enter something in
    the field and click the button I get a new

    added
    to the table.

      In IE, nothing gets added to the table.  I added the developer

    tool bar to IE and confirmed this. Nothing, not even something wrong,
    is getting added.

      I believe this may be related to the way IE handles things

    vis-a-vis DOM vs. their Table Object Model. They explain at

      I would really really appreciate it if someone much more

    knowledgeable than I would take a look and see if this is something I
    can work around and still use prototype, or if I’ve got to take some
    convoluted MS path to working with tables.

      Thanks in advance for any assistance.  I'll be happy to send the

    code if it would assist.

      Best regards,
  Bill


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    to hold the
    text. In the controller, I changed the render_text argument from
    “
  • …
    • ” to “
    …
    text