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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 26, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-render-action/161476 "2009-02-26T20:51:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@cojones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cojones)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-render-action/161476/1 "2009-02-26T20:51:02Z")
Hey,
is it possible to use replace\_html together with a render :action?
This is my code:
render :update do |page|
page.replace\_html ‘contentBody’, render(:action =\> ‘new’)
end
and this is the confusing result in my contentBody:
try {
Element.update(“contentBody”, “”);
} catch (e) { alert(‘RJS error:\n\n’ + e.toString());
alert(‘Element.update(“contentBody”, “”);’
); throw e }
Why doesn’t it work? Is there any alternative? It’s a bit tricky
because:
- I can’t redirect\_to because I need the content in ‘contentBody’
- I can’t render :action cause it wouldn’t know where to put the content
(coming from a form\_remote\_tag)
- I can’t use partials cause I need to use normal views
Anyone any idea? Thanks in advance!
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**Author:**  [@cojones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cojones)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-render-action/161476/2 "2009-02-27T14:38:22Z")
So from the view where you called this def you might have used
link\_to\_remote or some thing like that…isn’t it? So add
:update =\> “contentBody” to that
Now in action just write
render :action =\> ‘new’
Sijo
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**Author:**  [@cojones](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cojones)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-and-render-action/161476/3 "2009-02-27T14:52:47Z")
Yep, I just figured out that :update was missing right after I posted
that, thanks 🙂