Select field value != display on page reload

Rails
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Greetings!

I’ve got a select field (simple Yes | No) in a form and an observe_field
removing / inserting a

via RJS when the select field changes.

If the user reloads the page the value of the select field changes, but
not the display. That is, the default is ‘Yes’. The user changes the
value to ‘No’ and then hits the refresh button. When the page finishes
reloading and I look at the source via Firebug, the selected option is
‘Yes’, but the displayed value of the select box is still ‘No’.

Anybody know why this is? Or what I might do to work around it?

The problem it’s causing me is that when the user changes the displayed
value to ‘No’ it removes the

below the select from the page. When
they reload the page, the
is now displayed as per the original
page load. If the user changes the select back to ‘Yes’, the RJS
renders a second
. I can’t just toggle the display of the
.
It needs to be removed from the page.

TIA,
Bill

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On Nov 13, 2009, at 9:04 AM, bill walton wrote:

value to ‘No’ and then hits the refresh button. When the page
they reload the page, the

is now displayed as per the original
page load. If the user changes the select back to ‘Yes’, the RJS
renders a second
. I can’t just toggle the display of the
.
It needs to be removed from the page.

Firefox does this to me on normal selects… if you reload Firefox
will keep whatever you selected instead of “resetting” the select
field. If instead of reloading I go up into the address bar and hit
return (to trigger a ‘new’ load) then it resets itself.

I don’t know if there is a work around other than to forcibly move
things around using javascript based on what they did…

-philip