Mukund wrote: > Create a form without a submit tag. Put in another control on the > web page that does $('id_of_my_form').submit(); using a javascript > onclick event or whatever. > > Regards, > Mukund
Actually, the form doesn't have a submit tag in it, but 2 selection lists and a text field (it's a search/filter form). The submission happens when you hit enter whilst inside the text field -- I think it's something most people do when searching something > think of every visit you made to a search engine's page... Rails form_for might have this built in, since it immediately looks for 'create' action when hitting enter inside the text field. I thought about simply redirecting it to the same action that filters the form (which is actually called via observe_form tag nearby). I'm very new to rails, so I'm not sure how to call the action while retaining the same view. Here's a brief rundown of my code: # view <% form_for :person, :html => { :id => 'people_form' } -%> <%= f.select :id, @people.collect {|p| [p.name, p.id]} %> <%= f.select :gender, [['Male','M'],['Female','F']] %> <%= f.text_field :search, :size => 20 %> <% end -%> <%= observe_form :people_form, :frequency => 2, :update => 'people_table', :url => { :action => 'search_form', :only_path => false } %> <div id="people_table"> <table> <%= render :partial => 'person' %> <!--people rows are drawn from here --> </table> </div> # controller def search_form #... get all search params and store in cond @people = Person.find(:all, :conditions => cond) render :partial => 'person' if request.xml_http_request? end How would I call the search_form function on form submit resulting in the same view being rendered (similar to what observe_form does)? I tried adding :action => 'search_form' to the form_for tag, but it then looks for a view of the same name.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---