Thanks for update.
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 6:38 am Rob Paire, <robert.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I stepped through the Web2py AJAX call in the debugger and found that
> the hang-up was due to jquery serialize method. That method wants a form
> variable name as input. The easiest solution is to wrap the table in a set
> of form tags and then modify the TD so that it contains a form input object
> like this:
>
> <td> <INPUT type="text" id="s" name = "s" value="ajaxdata" onfocusout="
> ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['s'],'target');"/> </td>
>
> now the ajax call works as expected. A dash of CSS to hide the field
> borders and the end results look acceptable!
>
> Thank you for all your help
>
> On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 6:34:45 PM UTC-4, Rob Paire wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I am trying to send data entered into the contenteditable feature of a
>> row object using a Web2py AJAX call, and it's not working.
>>
>> The problem is illustrated below in a sample View file with two Ajax
>> calls. The first call, from the manual, uses an input form variable and it
>> works fine. In second call I tried passing the Name of the editable content
>> object to the AJAX call, but it does not work. In short, I want to send
>> document.getElementById('q').innerHTML as the data parameter of the ajax
>> function - how is this done? I tried various combinations of dict strings
>> {'key':'value'} as the data parameter but nothing seemed to work.
>>
>> Note: the controller data function looks for both r and q request.vars
>>
>> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>> <div id="target"></div>
>> <p>Ajax call example from the manual works perfectly.. the data appears
>> in the target Above.</p>
>> <form>
>> <INPUT type="text" id="r" name = "r" value="web4py"/>
>> <INPUT type="button" value="submit"
>> onclick="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['r'],'target');"/>
>> </form>
>> <hr>
>>
>> <table border="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
>> align="center">
>> <TR>
>> <td COLSPAN="1" align="right" BGCOLOR="#EAACE1"> <b>
>>
>> This AJAX call does not work:</b> </td> <td
>> onfocusout="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['q'],'target');"
>> contenteditable="true" id="q" name="q" COLSPAN="1" > ajaxdata </td>
>>
>> <td COLSPAN="1"> how do I pass the contenteditable data M to the AJAX
>> function? </td>
>> </tr>
>> </table>
>>
>> Thank you kindly
>> -Rob
>>
>>
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