Specify HTML options on select_year

Rails
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Rails 1.2.3

It appears that the select_year helper doesn’t accept HTML attributes as
part of the options array.

Does anyone have a way to successfully pass an :onchange attribute in to
the select_year helper?

I’m going to do it with Javascript directly for now.

Thanks,
Wes

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Hi Wes,

Please could you post the snippet of view code you are using? cheers

Jabbslad

On Feb 26, 7:32 am, Wes G. [email protected]

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Here’s an example:

<%= select_year(DateTime.now.year, :start_year => 1960, :end_year =>
DateTime.now.year, :prefix => “school”, :field_name => “yearfrom”,
:include_blank => true) %>

If you read the source code for select_year carefully
(api.rubyonrails.org), you’ll see that any regular HTML options do not
get passed to the “select_html” call, just option tag values and
“select_html” - specific options (which are not HTML options).

I ended up using Prototype to set up the onchange handlers dynamically,
which, as it turns out, is a better practice, and was actually better
suited for what I was doing.

Thanks,
Wes