Updating several divs within a controller

Rails
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I would know if it’s possible to do the following:

I have a head-DIV, main-Div and a navigation-DIV and a
global application Layout.

  •  head               -
  • link1 link2 link3 -
  • nav - main -

When I click a link in the head-DIV (link_to) I load
the according rhtml-File within the controller -> the main-DIV
is updated showing the requested content.

How can I update the nav-DIV to present a submenu to the user?
Must I call a render calling a rjs file with replace_html or is
there a more recommended way to do this?

Thanx

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On 5/28/07, jochen kaechelin [email protected] wrote:

is updated showing the requested content.

How can I update the nav-DIV to present a submenu to the user?
Must I call a render calling a rjs file with replace_html or is
there a more recommended way to do this?

That would be the best idea IMO. I had to do the same you need and i
tried some solutions, the best one to keep clean code and performance
is the rjs with the replace_html.

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Emilio T. schrieb:

is updated showing the requested content.

How can I update the nav-DIV to present a submenu to the user?
Must I call a render calling a rjs file with replace_html or is
there a more recommended way to do this?

That would be the best idea IMO. I had to do the same you need and i
tried some solutions, the best one to keep clean code and performance
is the rjs with the replace_html.

Could you give me a code-example please?

controller:

def index
end

template:
index.rhtml (rendered in the main-DIV)

Where must I put the rjs code that the navigation gets updated when
the index.rhtml is rendered?

Thanx