I admire your persistence. Don't give up.
Is jQ loaded when you view the output source?
The extra data could be a row, as well as an image, you could toggle off and
on as long as the tr had a unique tag in the output you could reference.
.data-row {
blah...
}
.data-row-hidden {
hidden blah...
}
$('.data-row').click('.data-row-hidden').toggle('.data-row'); //it's not
toggle it's css something to switch...
<th>SORT</th>
<tr class="data-row">You can see me!</tr>
<tr class="data-row-hidden">I've been hiding BOO!</tr>
I have to cut and paste your reply into a text editor and go over it line by
line to get it. Do you come with a debugger?
I think you need to instantiate a new object to hold your data is my initial
thought....
What did you google? I googled "[object XMLHttpRequest]"
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Trish <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's not the image that I'm concerned about coming from the server...
> it's the data I want to present in the new row that will come from the
> server. If I didn't need to find my object on click of the button, it
> wouldn't be an issue, but I need to find the object referenced in the
> row so I can dynamically create the data.
>
> Also, I do not believe this pertains to the plugin itself, the issue
> occurs when I use the $.post function that is included with jQuery.
> Even when I try an alert on the calls results, I get the [object
> XMLHttpRequest] returned.
>
> Here's what I have so far that seems to at least present some HTML on
> the screen (still haven't determined why it didn't work with my
> earlier method)
>
> The original code called this:
> oTable.fnOpen( nTr, fnFormatDetails(oTable, nTr), 'details' );
>
> oTable represents my table and nTr represents the row I'm working
> with.
> fnFormatDetails ina function that in the original case creates static
> html... but this is where I was trying to hit the server with the
> $.post call. This fnOpen function came with the DataTables plugin and
> it appends a <tr></tr> below the referenced row with the content
> coming from fnFormatDetails.
>
> This would return my new row, but the content would be "[object
> XMLHttpRequest] " instead of the view content.
>
> I exhausted Google on this... I couldn't even find anything similar to
> my issue. Which makes me thing I'm missing something small and
> obvious.
>
> However... since I could not get this working... I opted to append the
> row in my action. So, instead of calling the oTable.fnOpen function,
> I just call $.post to my action. In the action, I write something
> like this...
> render :update do |page|
>
> page["#my_id"].after(escape_javascript(render :partial=>"field_details"))
> end
>
> This appends my row beautifully, except the html returned seems to be
> over-escaped by the escape_javascript method. For example, my html
> close tags return as "<\/td>", so the tags never end up closing. But
> if I don't escape it, I get a javascript error saying "r is null". I
> believe it is failing on one of my </tr> tags.
>
> I appreciate any guidance you can give me on this. I have been trying
> to solve this sorting issue for days, now, with various methods... and
> just when I feel like I'm close, I run into a wall.
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
> Trish
>
>
>
> On Aug 5, 9:33 pm, Angel Robert Marquez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Why hit the server again rather than have the initial response have the
> css
> > class for the returned image you want to toggle set to display: none and
> > modify the ui control to toggle the css class?
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Angel Robert Marquez <
> >
> >
> >
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Do you want me to do all the research first and have the answers or do
> it
> > > out loud like we did last time?
> >
> > > I think the question might be better suited for the plugin developers.
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Trish <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> Okay, so I am very new to this jQuery stuff, and it seems like I'm
> > >> just going round and round on this... so I'm hoping someone can help.
> >
> > >> I have a table that will have a image on each row that when click, it
> > >> adds a row with more details below the current row. The details will
> > >> all be pulled from rails.
> >
> > >> I am using the DataTables plugin for jQuery for my table and am basing
> > >> my code off of this example:
> >
> > >>http://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html
> >
> > >> The example adds the row without going to the server, so I have
> > >> modified fnFormatDetails to hit the server.
> >
> > >> my modified code is this:
> >
> > >> function fnFormatDetails ( oTable, nTr )
> > >> {
> > >> return jQuery.post('<%= url_for :action=>"field_details" %>', {},
> > >> null, 'html');
> > >> }
> >
> > >> I have also tried multiple variations of this, and can't get anything
> > >> to work.
> >
> > >> I am hitting my action just fine, and it is parsing the view (as seen
> > >> with log statements), but when the row displays on the screen, I see:
> >
> > >> [object XMLHttpRequest]
> >
> > >> instead of the text. I have also tried just a plain
> > >> render(:text=>"some text", :layout=>"false") in my action, and have
> > >> the same results.
> >
> > >> All the documentation I see makes me believe that the $.post method
> > >> should be returning html.
> >
> > >> I have viewed this with FireBug, and it sees the response as the text
> > >> I gave.
> >
> > >> As a side note, I chose to use the $.post method instead of the $.get
> > >> method because $.get was returning a 304 error. I get the 200 code
> > >> for $.post.
> >
> > >> Also, I have tried this with both jQuery 1.4 and the jQuery instance
> > >> provided with the plugin.
> >
> > >> Thanks in advance!
> > >> Trish
> >
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