# Ready to call this a bug **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ready-to-call-this-a-bug/93494 "2006-04-04T00:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ready-to-call-this-a-bug/93494/1 "2006-04-04T00:01:56Z")
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 \ 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 > **[Technical documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/docs/)** 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 | ---
**Author:** ![wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ready-to-call-this-a-bug/93494/2 "2006-04-04T04:16:07Z")
I remember reading on this forum that IE doesn’t support DOM manupulation of tables. ---
**Author:** ![wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ready-to-call-this-a-bug/93494/3 "2006-04-04T16:46:23Z")
Well, I know that [script.actulo.us/prototype](http://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](http://agileconsultingllc.com) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid +1 513-295-4739 ---
**Author:** ![wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wpwood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wpwood)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ready-to-call-this-a-bug/93494/4 "2006-04-04T18:00:46Z")
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: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Sent: 2006-04-04 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [Rails] Ready to call this a bug Well, I know that [script.actulo.us/prototype](http://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](http://agileconsultingllc.com) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid +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. 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 ``` \ 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 > **[Technical documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/docs/)** ``` 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 _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list removed_email_address@domain.invalid http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list removed_email_address@domain.invalid http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails ``` * * * * * * Rails mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) | to hold the text. In the controller, I changed the render\_text argument from “- … ” to “ | | … | | text |