On 22 March 2010 22:32, RichardOnRails <richarddummymailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote: > Hi Colin, > > I still don't have subversion not git working.
Well the answer to that problem is obvious. Colin > But I pretty sure that > http://www.pastie.org/881730 presents it all: three aspects of "new > expenses": the .erb, the htm and the validator's. > > A second look a the validation failure led me to think that > substituting object for div would solve my problem. It doesn't run > any differently. I haven't sought the validator's opinion yet. > > Regards, > Richard > > On Mar 22, 5:49 pm, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 22 March 2010 21:18, RichardOnRails >> >> >> >> <richarddummymailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> >> > Inside my app\views\expenses\new.html.erb file, I had the code: >> >> > <% form_for(@expense) do |f| %> >> > [snip] >> > <p> >> > <%= f.label :vendor %><br /> >> > <%= f.text_field :vendor %> >> > <br /> >> > <div id="vendor_droplist> >> > <%= select_tag "test", >> > options_for_select(@current_vendors.collect { |v| >> > v.nickname }), >> > {:multiple => true} %> >> > </div> >> > </p> >> >> > It brought up a list of vendor-names immediately under my Vendors >> > textbox, which worked great as far as I was concerned. Then I tried >> > to turn it into a real drop-down: >> > 1. I added style="display:none" to the div so that the drop-down was >> > hidden when the page opened >> > 2. I added <%= button_to_function("ShowList", >> > %<page.toggle :vendor_droplist> ) %> following the text_field >> >> > Hiding the drop-down worked, but the button failed to restore it. >> > Validating the resulting HTML revealed the a div is not permitted in >> > the scope of a form. >> >> You certainly can have divs inside a form. I think you must have >> misinterpreted the message. Can you roll your version control system >> back to the version that caused this and post the results of the >> validation and the bit of html causing the problem. >> >> Colin >> >> >> >> > To solve this I removed the <div> opening and closing tags and: >> > 1. added the id to the select_tag: >> > <%= select_tag "test" :id="vendor_droplist", >> > options_for_select(@current_vendors.collect { |v| >> > v.nickname }), >> > {:multiple => true} %> >> > 2 added it with a comma >> > <%= select_tag "test", :id="vendor_droplist", >> > options_for_select(@current_vendors.collect { |v| >> > v.nickname }), >> > {:multiple => true} %> >> >> > Neither these nor any other change I tried worked. So what's the >> > Rail's way of solving this problem? >> >> > I'm running Rails 2.3.5, Ruby 1.8.6, WinXP-Pro/SP3, Firefox 3.6, MySQL >> > 5.0.37-community-nt, Mongrel. >> >> > Thanks in Advance, >> > Richard >> >> > -- >> > 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-t...@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > 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-t...@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. > > -- 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-t...@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.
