Hi,
I need a prototype/javascript guru to take a peek at this.
There’s been discussions about prototype.js missing full support for the :on parameter to field_observer eg this is ignored, and always defaults to on “change”, whether you use “focus”, “keyup” , “blur” whatever
<%= observe_field ‘foo’, :on => “focus”, :function => ‘Element.show(“foobar”)’ %>
here’s some background:
[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9003](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9003)
[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/b297e6e10c1989fc?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/b297e6e10c1989fc?hl=en) (discusses "blur")
[http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2006/07/21/working-on-forms-with-prototype](http://jonathan.tron.name/articles/2006/07/21/working-on-forms-with-prototype) (specific to "focus")
[http://joshhuckabee.com/rails-observe-field-function-and](http://joshhuckabee.com/rails-observe-field-function-and) (general solution)
The joshhuckabee article seems the best generalized solution, gives a patch to prototype.js
but seems out of date w/r/t Rails 2.0 prototype.js When I add the patch, FireBug goes into an infinite loop adding errors:
Form.Element.getValue is not a function
return Form.Element.getValue(this.element);
It’s probably a simple fix to get it to work again. But I dont know js that well…
tia
