Want to jump/scroll to a certain row in a table

Rails
#1

Hi

This might be more of an HTML question but it could be because of an
interaction with Rails that the solution I use right now is not
working.

I have tried several ways to jump/scroll to a certain row in a large
table, I tried an event like

and use
http://website#section#666
I inserted the div with the even before the and after it, both
did not work

I have also tried to use (found this also on the
web somewhere) but it also did not work.

Is there another solution that is more rails friendly? What am I
messing up?

#2

You’re just using the wrong syntax. Use id=“event666” and link to it
like http://some/url#event666

#3

2009/10/1 Matt [email protected]:
I have tried several ways to jump/scroll to a certain row in a large
table, I tried an event like

and use http://website#section#666
I inserted the div with the even before the and after it, both
did not work

I’ve started using this recently:

http://demos.flesler.com/jquery/scrollTo/

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

#4

Matt wrote:

Hi

This might be more of an HTML question but it could be because of an
interaction with Rails that the solution I use right now is not
working.

I have tried several ways to jump/scroll to a certain row in a large
table, I tried an event like

and use
http://website#section#666
I inserted the div with the even before the and after it, both
did not work

Right. This won’t work, both because jumping to an ID doesn’t work and
because a div can’t surround a TR.

I have also tried to use (found this also on the
web somewhere) but it also did not work.

This is the correct tag – but you can’t put a # into the name. What
you want is . Then to refer to it, use the
http://url/of/the/page#some_name .

Is there another solution that is more rails friendly? What am I
messing up?

You’re messing up basic HTML syntax, nothing to do with Rails directly.
:slight_smile:

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

#5

Thank you! That with:
<% if @section>0 %>

<% end %>

at the start of the file was all that was needed!

On Oct 1, 1:42 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

#6

2009/10/1 Matt [email protected]:

did not work
I believe div is not valid round a row (or cell for that matter), it
can only encompass the whole table or be within a cell. Paste your
html into the w3c htlm validator to check. Different browsers behave
inconsistently with this sort of html error, it may appear to work
with some.

Colin