Appending to a textarea with RJS

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Ok, this is driving me nuts. I'm trying to RJS some text into a text_area which may or may not have been written in by the user. if I page.insert_html :before, :after, :top, or :bottom, it either sticks the contents above or below the text box (but never in). If I do:

page[:textboxid].value = "blah"

it overwrites the contents of the textbox but doesn't APPEND to it. I've tried doing something to the effect of

page[:textboxid].value = "blah" + page[:textboxid].value or page[:textboxid].value = "blah" + $#{'textboxid'}.value

and several variants. But I keep getting errors. Or... nothing. Someone please help me before I put my fist through my screen.

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Thats a good question. I can't get it to work with RJS, but this simple prototype based javascript works fine. I guess you could stick it in a function and call your function from RJS.

$('tarea').value = $('tarea').getValue() + " blah"

johnhutch wrote:

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YAYYYY IT WORKED! Here's my RJS/javascript code:

      <%= link_to_function "Append to Text Area" do |page|         page << "$('textarea_id').value = $('textarea_id).getValue() + 'blah!'"         end       %>