# Submit\_to\_remote with image **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817 "2009-07-09T17:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/1 "2009-07-09T17:45:17Z")
Anyone have an idea how I can shoehorn (or workaround) a submit\_to\_remote to accept html options so that I might put an image to it? ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/2 "2009-07-09T18:20:56Z")
Hi Janna, On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:44 -0700, JannaB wrote: > Anyone have an idea how I can shoehorn (or workaround) a > submit\_to\_remote to accept html options so that I might put an image > to it? link\_to\_remote takes an image\_tag in place of the name text and the :submit option. image\_submit\_tag will give you a straight HTTP submit with an image instead of a button. HTH, Bill ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/3 "2009-07-09T18:45:46Z")
Janna, image\_submit\_tag has a nasty effect of not applying rollover but I got it to work by calling javascript directly: \<%= image\_submit\_tag(’/images/your\_main\_image.jpg’, :title =\> “Search”, :class =\> “btnsearch”, :onmouseover =\> “this.src=’/images/your\_rollover\_image.jpg’”, :onmouseout =\> “this.src=’/images/your\_main\_image.jpg’”) %\> ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/4 "2009-07-09T21:05:49Z")
On Jul 9, 4:44 pm, JannaB [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Anyone have an idea how I can shoehorn (or workaround) a > submit\_to\_remote to accept html options so that I might put an image > to it? if you do submit\_to\_remote blah, blah, :html =\> {…} then that options hash is passed to button\_to\_remote (and thus button\_to\_function etc.) Fred ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/5 "2009-07-09T20:16:10Z")
Ok, but I cannot have a submit\_to\_remote with an image, right? ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/6 "2009-07-09T21:57:51Z")
Fred, I thnk you may be wrong on this (for once!) -or-, more likely, I cant find the right hash key for the image (I’m unable to discern the correct syntax). For example, the following works, but, my problem is that it doesn’t pick up the values of other controls on the form: \<%= link\_to\_remote image\_tag("/images/icecube.gif"), {:url =\>{:action =\> ‘freezer’}} %\> when I follow what (I think) you have suggested: \<%= submit\_to\_remote ‘Freezer’, ‘freezer’, {:url =\> { :action =\> ‘freezer’ }, :name =\> image\_tag("/images/icecube.gif")} %\> doesn;t pick up the image. But The hash key may be something other than ‘name’ (I have tried, ‘image,’ and ‘img’ but I dont see how this would map to the name parameter in link\_to\_remote) -Janna B ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/7 "2009-07-10T05:39:20Z")
Hello– On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:44 AM, JannaB wrote: > Anyone have an idea how I can shoehorn (or workaround) a > submit\_to\_remote to accept html options so that I might put an image > to it? It looks, from some of your recent posts, that the Javascript helpers may be more of an impediment than a help to you. The JS helpers work great for the things they were designed to do. Many people prefer simply to use Prototype or jQuery without any Rails magic. It’s not much harder and you your own code almost always bends to your will. Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/8 "2009-07-09T22:28:49Z")
On Jul 9, 8:57 pm, JannaB [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > when I follow what (I think) you have suggested: > > \<%= submit\_to\_remote ‘Freezer’, ‘freezer’, {:url =\> { :action =\> > ‘freezer’ }, :name =\> image\_tag(“/images/icecube.gif”)} %\> That wasn’t what I was getting at. if you do submit\_to\_remote ‘Freezer’, ‘freezer’, :url =\> { :action =\> ‘freezer’ }, :html =\> {…} then that will set html options on the input element that is generated. Fred ---
**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/submit-to-remote-with-image/171817/9 "2009-07-11T10:10:40Z")
I wanted to something similar and ended up monkey-patching JavaScriptHelper … [http://groups.google.ca/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/244e24285d3d883d](http://groups.google.ca/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/244e24285d3d883d)