Thanks for the quick response. I could use a switch/case structure to
handle the
$("#services").html("<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => "a" ))
%>").show()
call as there are only 6 partials I need. I have 6 links on the page
that only vary by the "section" value.
I still need some guidance on pulling out the value of the "section"
attribute from the <a> DOM element. Any idea on that part?
Dave
On Sep 10, 9:37 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 10, 12:18 pm, dwormuth <dworm...@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the proper syntax to have
> > jQuery (in an .js file) grab an HTML attribute and use the value of
> > that attribute to load a partial.
>
> > HTML fragment:
> > <a href="/toggle" data-remote="true" section="training">
>
> > jQuery string (now setting a static partial, I need this to be
> > dynamic)
> > $("#services").html("<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial =>
> > "operations" )) %>").show()
>
> > I want the value of "section" as that corresponds to the name of the
> > partial. I've tried to look at this in Firebug, but I'm not able to
> > set the proper breakpoint so I can see the context when the jQuery
> > string is evaluated.
>
> > What I want is something like:
>
> > foo = $(this).data("section")
>
> > $("#services").html("<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => foo ))
> > %>").show()
>
> > or
>
> > $("#services").html("<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => $
> > (this).data("section") )) %>").show()
>
> This isn't possible. Whatever is in your <%= %> bits is evaluated when
> the response is served by your browser. It can't use information that
> will only come into existence once the user has started to interact
> with the page in the browser. You'd either need to have all those
> partials hidden somewhere on the page so that the js can find them or
> make an Ajax request once you know which partial is needed.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> > Thank you for you time
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