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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200 "2006-07-20T22:47:31Z")\
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/1 "2006-07-20T22:47:31Z")
Hi all,
This is my first post to the list, so I hope it gets through and I
don’t do anything wrong 🙂
Here’s the issue I’m having…
I have an rjs that’s doing:
page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’
And in my my\_partial I have:
And this breaks my replace\_html, and I get a javascript error in
firebug that looks like it’s not escaping it right.
Does anyone else experience this? Anyone have any suggestions on how
to fix it?
TIA
–hax
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/2 "2006-07-20T23:17:56Z")
Can’t you just do
page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’
page.alert(‘foo’)
in the RJS template and skip the javascript in the partial?
Zack
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/3 "2006-07-20T23:24:59Z")
Hi hax,
hax wrote:
> This is my first post to the list, so I hope it gets through and I don’t
> do anything wrong 🙂
Welcome aboard!
> I have an rjs that’s doing:
> page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’
>
> And in my my\_partial I have:
If it makes sense to do it in the RJS template, you can just do
page.alert(‘foo’). If that doesn’t make sense, posting more of the code
might help you get a better answer.
Best regards,
Bill
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/4 "2006-07-21T14:18:45Z")
hax wrote:
> Let me know what you think.
Not quite the same thing, but as a data point: I have one app that uses
a lot of Ajax editing. The link that shows initially is a
link\_to\_remote. The method it points to renders javascript via render
:template. The template it renders, in turn, calls replace\_html with a
partial. The partial includes a form\_remote\_tag.
All of this works fine, no problems with the escaping or anything. It
seems like a vaguely comparable situation, so I thought I’d mention it.
–Al Evans
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/5 "2006-07-21T18:29:15Z")
> Not quite the same thing, but as a data point: I have one app that
> uses
> a lot of Ajax editing. The link that shows initially is a
> link\_to\_remote. The method it points to renders javascript via render
> :template. The template it renders, in turn, calls replace\_html with a
> partial. The partial includes a form\_remote\_tag.
> All of this works fine, no problems with the escaping or anything. It
> seems like a vaguely comparable situation, so I thought I’d mention
> it.
Aha. This isn’t exactly the same thing, but it got me thinking, and
after a good night’s sleep, here’s what the problem actually was:
In my rjs I was rendering a partial that had tags in it…
but this works if you just set up a test case. The problem actually
was with Sean Treadway’s responds\_to\_parent (http://
sean.treadway.info/articles/2006/05/29/iframe-remoting-made-easy) and
my iframe trickery.
As it turns out, his plugin seems to have the escaping problem.
Sorry this wasn’t actually related to the core like I had originally
thought, but thank you for prompting me to fix it 🙂
If anyone needs more details, feel free to mail me.
–hax
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/6 "2006-07-21T05:46:06Z")
> Welcome aboard!
Thanks, this list looks really helpful 🙂
> > I have an rjs that’s doing:
> > page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’
> >
> > And in my my\_partial I have:
>
> If it makes sense to do it in the RJS template, you can just do
> page.alert(‘foo’). If that doesn’t make sense, posting more of the
> code might help you get a better answer.
I knew I should have posted more code 🙂
It actually looks more like this:
RJS: page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’
\_my\_partial.rhtml:
@foo.each do |f|
"\> \<%= f.my\_string %\>
\<%= in\_place\_editor "foo\_#{f.id}", :url =\> { :action =\> 'update\_my\_string', :id =\> f.id } %\> end
So, although it’s the same problem as my alert() above from the point
of view of “it’s escaping wrong”… I don’t think I can do the
in\_place\_editor in the rjs like page.in\_place\_editor().
I guess I could look to see how in\_place\_editor does it’s thing,
strip out the javascript part, and \<\< it into page. Then include an
extra line in my partial that doesn’t try to do the in\_place\_editor
if it’s an rjs page\_replace. But that seems unclean, and it’d also
seem like if replace\_html isn’t broken by not being able to include a
in it... it should raise an error, or have a note in the rdoc, or something, so people like me aren't just staring blankly at it :) Let me know what you think. --hax
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**Author:**  [@hax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hax)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-html-javascript/99200/7 "2006-07-21T19:14:23Z")
Try,
page.replace\_html ‘myid’, :partial =\> ‘my\_partial’, :content\_type =\>
‘text/javascript; charset=utf-8’
And have following in your RJS :
alert(‘foo’);
This should work theoretically.
On 7/21/06, hax [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> And in my my\_partial I have:
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