On Sunday, 28 October 2012 22:06:35 UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
I use elm to stand for element, and evt to stand for event. It's just a
habit I have, to keep clear in my head what I am dealing with when I use an
observer or an iterator.
snip
I see - that seems like a very good habit for
I'm new to Prototype, and I'm trying to use AJAX to update divs inthe
background, pulling data from a database. I've got Ajax.Updater to work
with the output of a form, but I'm having difficulty with adpting it for
use with a link. Basically, I have a list of words produced by the db,
each
On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:15 AM, donnek wrote:
I'm new to Prototype, and I'm trying to use AJAX to update divs inthe
background, pulling data from a database. I've got Ajax.Updater to work with
the output of a form, but I'm having difficulty with adpting it for use with
a link. Basically, I
On Sunday, 28 October 2012 15:53:37 UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
I'm pretty sure your problem is right here. There's no attr() method in
Prototype. Try readAttribute() instead, and you appear to have everything
right besides.
Thanks, Walter, but unfortunately changing that line to:
On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:05 PM, donnek wrote:
On Sunday, 28 October 2012 15:53:37 UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
I'm pretty sure your problem is right here. There's no attr() method in
Prototype. Try readAttribute() instead, and you appear to have everything
right besides.
Thanks, Walter,
On Sunday, 28 October 2012 15:53:37 UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
What does Firebug say your request looks like? What does your server
respond with?
TypeError: $(this).readAttribute is not a function
parameters: { word: $(this).readAttribute(id) }
There's no change to the calling page -
Okay, that means that 'this' inside the Ajax.Updater is not set to what you
think it is. Try this:
function get_word(elm)
{
new Ajax.Updater
(
'output',
'mylist.php',
{
method: 'get',
parameters: { word: $(elm).readAttribute(id) }
On Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:32:34 UTC, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Okay, that means that 'this' inside the Ajax.Updater is not set to what
you think it is. Try this:
snip
Much cleaner and fewer global variables are massacred.
Hey, thanks! Both of those work. But I don't understand what
I use elm to stand for element, and evt to stand for event. It's just a habit I
have, to keep clear in my head what I am dealing with when I use an observer or
an iterator.
If I am iterating over a collection of elements with each, I will usually write
this:
$$('.foo').each(function(elm){
