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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 3, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979 "2006-07-03T22:25:15Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/1 "2006-07-03T22:25:15Z")
Hi,
I’ve searched the list and found that someone had the same problem as me
[http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/043760.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/043760.html)
I’m have in my page a link like this
\<%= link\_to\_remote (“Add
#{image\_tag(‘add.png’)}”,:url=\>{:action=\>‘addProduct’})%\>
and in my controller
def addProduct
…
render :update do |page|
page[:productsTable].insert\_html :partial=\>“entryProduct”
page.visual\_effect :highlight,‘:productsTable’
end
end
entryProduct partial is in \_entryProduct.rhtml
If I use replace\_html instead of insert\_Html it works fine. I don’t
know exactly what I’m doing wrong.
The response reported by Firebug is
try {
$(“productsTable”).insertHtml({“partial”: “entryProduct”});
new Effect.Highlight(“:productsTable”,{});
} catch (e) {
alert(‘RJS error:\n\n’ + e.toString());
alert(‘$("productsTable").insertHtml({"partial":
"entryProduct"});\nnew
effect.Highlight(":productsTable",{});’);
throw e
}
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/2 "2006-07-04T03:16:59Z")
I didn’t see your original post but would suggest you check to make
sure
your “aaa” id is unique on the page. I recently had a somewhat similar
problem.
hth,
Bill
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Subject: [Rails] Rjs $(“aaa”).insertHtml is not a function error
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/3 "2006-07-05T23:04:37Z")
I’ve checked an the id is unique.
When I’m using replace\_html instead of insert\_html it works fine.
More to that: if I change the code from the addproduct method to
def addProduct
…
return render :action =\> ‘entryProduct.rjs’ if request.xhr?
end
and in the entryProduct.rjs I have
page.insert\_html :bottom,‘productsTable’,:partial=\>“entryProduct”
it works fine.
Does anyone has any ideea what I’m doing wrong in the first place ?
Thanx
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/4 "2006-07-06T06:35:50Z")
Ovidiu EFTIMIE wrote:
> I’ve checked an the id is unique.
> When I’m using replace\_html instead of insert\_html it works fine.
> More to that: if I change the code from the addproduct method to
> def addProduct
It sounds to me like you might have a typo somewhere in there. If you’d
post all the relevant code, maybe we can help you find it. Or whatever
it
is.
Best regards,
Bill
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/5 "2006-07-06T23:43:10Z")
Hi Ovidiu,
The problem you’re having is that it’s not possible to insert\_html
inside a
table. You have to replace the whole table, which is why the replace
works.
There were some posts on the list earlier today from Ryan L. who was
having the same problem. He came up with a link that explained the
problem.
You might want to look back and see those.
Best regards,
Bill
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/6 "2006-07-07T08:40:22Z")
Thanx Bill,
I’ll search those posts
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**Author:**  [@Ovidiu\_EFTIMIE](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ovidiu_EFTIMIE)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-aaa-inserthtml-is-not-a-function-error/96979/7 "2006-07-06T23:05:15Z")
Hi Bill,
In the controller I have
#entries\_controller.rb
def addProduct
render :update do |page|
page[:productsTable].insert\_html :bottom,:partial=\>“entryProduct”
page.visual\_effect :highlight,’:productsTable’
end
end
in \_form.rhtml:
\<%= @actionTitle%\>
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<%= link_to_remote ("Add
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#{image\_tag(‘add.png’)}",:url=\>{:action=\>‘addProduct’})%\>
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In new.rhtml I have:
\<%= form\_tag ({:action =\> ‘create’},{:class =\>
“f-wrap-1”,:onsubmit=\>“selectItem()”})%\>
\<%= render :partial =\> ‘form’ %\>
\<%= submit\_tag “Add” ,:class=\>“f-submit”%\> \<%=
link\_to ‘Cancel’, :action =\> ‘list’ %\>
\<%= end\_form\_tag %\>
I think this is all the relevant code.
Thanx,
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