dependent collection select

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Hello people

I'm developing a rails 3.0.9 app with jquery and I need to perform this issue. If I select a value from a collection select (Region), another collection select (cities) should populate based on the selected value from the first one.

I was following this example http://www.petermac.com/rails-3-jquery-and-multi-select-dependencies/ but in the example they are using "semantic_form_for" and I'm just using "form_for" so, when I load the form and I choose a region, the other select box is populated and i can choose the city, at this point everything works perfect... the problem is... I can't save the form.

When I press the submit button, nothing happens (no submiting, no error messages, nothing at all), the page gets stuck.

Does anyone know how to work with dependent select boxes in rails??

Hope you can help me... Thanks

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Is there anything special about the submit button code or is it a standard submit?

When you say there is no submit, have you looked in the rails log to see whether there is anything there.

Copy the complete html of the page from the browser (view > Page Source or similar) and paste it into the w3c html validator to check that the html is valid.

If still no joy run the page in firefox with firebug enabled and see if there are any errors.

If you reply here make sure you answer all the above issues, to save them being asked again.

Colin