Setting classes and ids

is there a way to set the classes and ids of html elements made via
helpers. for instance i want to create a link that results in the
following html:

Home

is there a way to do it, or will i have to do it the old html way?

is there a way to set the classes and ids of html elements made via
helpers. for instance i want to create a link that results in the
following html:

Home

is there a way to do it, or will i have to do it the old html way?

<%= link_to ‘Home’, ‘index.html’, :id => ‘current’, :class =>
‘northcrest’
%>

But I doubt you really want to link to ‘index.html’ in a rails app…
maybe ‘/’ or home_url or something like that.

-philip

hey thanks for the reply. i tried what you suggested. here is the
code:

<%= link_to “Results”, :action => “index”, :id => “current”, :class =>
“northcrest” %>

and here is the resulting html:

Results

my first post was a little off. this is what i’m looking for as a
result. same concept:

<a href=“/plugincompare/index” id=“current”
class=northcrest">Results

browner than u wrote:

hey thanks for the reply. i tried what you suggested. here is the
code:

<%= link_to “Results”, :action => “index”, :id => “current”, :class =>
“northcrest” %>

and here is the resulting html:

Results

my first post was a little off. this is what i’m looking for as a
result. same concept:

<a href=“/plugincompare/index” id=“current”
class=northcrest">Results

Check out the docs for link_to

http://caboo.se/doc/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#M006132

Mainly:

link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil)

Now in this littl method, name is what appears for you to click on,
options is actually an object which can generate a url, and html_options
is a hash of attribute/value pairs added to the resulting html tag.

So when you do:

link_to “Results”,
:action => “index”,
:id => “current”,
:class => “northcrest”

Ruby thinks it is:

link_to(“Results”,
{:action => “index”,
:id => “current”,
:class => “northcrest”})

All those options are getting wrapped up in the hash that is used to
generate the url. You want to pass some of those into the html_options
argument.

link_to(‘Results’, {:action => 'index},
{:id => ‘current’, :class => 'northcrest})

This nested brace syntax can be a bit cumbersome. This is one of the
many reasons people often used named routes instead.

#routes.rb
map.results ‘results’, :controller => ‘results’

#view
link_to ‘Results’, results_path, :id => ‘current’, :class =>
‘northcrest’

The results_path fills the url portions of the arguments, and the hash
you then pass in falls into the “html_options” argument, providing the
functionality you want.

hey thanks for the reply. i tried what you suggested. here is the
code:

<%= link_to “Results”, :action => “index”, :id => “current”, :class =>
“northcrest” %>

oops.

<%= link_to “Results”, {:action => “index”}, :id => “current”, :class =>
“northcrest” %>

(note the {}'s)

that worked it out! thanks so much. you’ve been a great help.

Alex W. wrote:

Check out the docs for link_to

http://caboo.se/doc/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#M006132