Simple RJS question--toggling the text of a link_to_function link

Hey All,

I’m dabbling in a little DHTML to show/hide a fieldset on a page, w/
the following:

<%=
link_to_function(“Show People”, nil, :id => “more_link”) do |page|
page.visual_effect(:toggle_appear, “organization-people”)
page.replace_html(“more_link”, “Hide People”)
end
%>

This works very nicely, except for one thing–when the page loads, the
link attached to the resulting jscript function is “Show People”. The
first time I click it changes to “Hide People” & the fieldset appears–
all very nice. My problem is that I don’t know how to change the link
text back to “Show People” once the user clicks a second time. The
link always does what I want–showing or hiding as appropriate, but
it only says what I want for the first two clicks.

Is there a way to find out what the current link contains so I can
make that call to replace_html conditional?

Many thanks!

-Roy

Nobody has advice for me on this? :frowning:

Hi Roy,

You should post your javascript function if you want help with modifying
it. That’s where the modification of the link text would ‘normally’
happen.

Best regards,
Bill

On Aug 24, 4:17 pm, Roy P. [email protected] wrote:

Nobody has advice for me on this? :frowning:

you basically need to write some raw javascript for this ( if
(‘something’.innerHTML == …)) and either mash that together with the
rjs stuff using << or just write the whole thing in javascript and
forget about the rjs bits

Fred

You mean I would have to sacrifice my carefully crafted complete
ignorance of javascript? Bummer. :wink:

Thanks guys. Perhaps today is a good day to start reading up on
javascript.

Thanks!

-Roy

On Aug 24, 10:00 am, Frederick C. [email protected]