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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-page-select-behaviour/140805 "2008-06-18T19:25:58Z")\
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**Author:**  [@hildegunst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hildegunst)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-page-select-behaviour/140805/1 "2008-06-18T19:25:58Z")
Hi,
I want to update a div element selected using its class.
This is the code I tried in the RJS:
page.replace\_html page.select(’#account div.content’).first, :partial =\>
‘my\_html’
and also
page.select(’#account div.content’).first.replace\_html :partial =\>
‘my\_html’
Neither work whereas the following do work:
page.select(’#account div.content’).each do |d|
page.replace\_html d, :partial =\> ‘boxes/account’
end
I miss something, can someone explain me?
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**Author:**  [@hildegunst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hildegunst)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-page-select-behaviour/140805/2 "2008-06-18T19:27:15Z")
Wrong copy/paste: the partial called is the same for all…
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**Author:**  [@hildegunst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hildegunst)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-page-select-behaviour/140805/3 "2008-06-18T19:33:48Z")
Page.select return a collection of object, thus you have to iterate
over each element before using page.replace\_html
_Aurélien Bottazini_
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**Author:**  [@hildegunst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hildegunst)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-page-select-behaviour/140805/4 "2008-06-18T20:08:53Z")
On Jun 18, 6:33 pm, Aurélien Bottazini [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Page.select return a collection of object, thus you have to iterate
> over each element before using page.replace\_html
To be slightly more precise page.select is a magic proxy object. I
went into it in some detail here:
> **[Conditional RJS explained - Space Vatican](https://www.spacevatican.org/2008/5/26/conditional-rjs-explained/)**
>
> RJS is one of those nifty little things that catches your eye when you first start off using Rails. You very quickly get to add ajax and whizzy …
Fred