form_remote_tag spewing JS error

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I have a page with a search form using a form_remote_for where I want the search results to display below the form. Everything is mostly working, but instead of getting fomatted output, I get a JS error message. That message actually seems to hold the data I want (I see evidence of the search results in the jibberish).

My first foray in using Ajax with Rails, and I have two other instances with remote_link_to working finr, but this one I just can't see what's different about it to cause it to fail.

----------- ERROR -----------

try { Element.update("searchResults", "\074h1\076Search Results\....... } catch (e) { alert('RJS error:\n\n' + e.toString()); alert('Element.update(\"searchResults\",........ throw e }

#--- FORM PARTIAL ------

<% form_remote_tag(:url => {:action => 'search_results' },   :html => {:id => 'stdSearchForm'},   :update => 'searchResults') do -%>

     --- yadda ---

<% end -%>

#--- CONTROLLER -------

def search_results   @search_list = Child.get_list(params)   respond_to do |request_format|     request_format.js   end end

#--- RJS FILE ------------

page.replace_html("searchResults",   :partial => (@app_site_paths.panels + 'child_search_results'),   :locals => {:search_list => @search_list})

#--- HTML FILE ---------

<div id="childSearch">    <%= yield :main %> </div> <!-- /childSearch -->

<div id="searchResults"></div>

The error string actually shows in in the searchResults <div>

I've looked at my code, compared to books & blogs & my working examples, and I just don't see what's wrong.

Ideas ??

-- gw

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Greg Willits wrote:

I have a page with a search form using a form_remote_for where I want the search results to display below the form. Everything is mostly working, but instead of getting fomatted output, I get a JS error message. That message actually seems to hold the data I want (I see evidence of the search results in the jibberish).

Doh. This is a case where :update should not be specified in the form tag.

Works now.

-- gw