How to get the responseText from an Ajax.request (urgent!)

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Hello all

is it possible? I have a select list, and "onchange" event i am using a remote_function, when it is completed, I wanted to execute a javascript: $(this).next(.'product_price').value = "RESPONSE_TEXT_FROM_AJAX_REQUEST"

there is some way to do this?

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supply an onComplete or an onSuccess handler, eg :complete => '...' what you give will be wrapper in a function declaration where request will be the request that completed (and so request.responseText is what the server rendered). Just check that 'this' is what you think it is

Fred

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flaubert wrote:

I have a select list, and "onchange" event i am using a remote_function, when it is completed, I wanted to execute a javascript: $(this).next(.'product_price').value = "RESPONSE_TEXT_FROM_AJAX_REQUEST"

there is some way to do this?

An alternative to the other answer - don't reply with raw text. Write your action like this:

   def action      result = whatever(params)      render :update do |rjs|        rjs.replace_html :product_price, convert_to_html(result)      end    end

I don't know how convert_to_html will convert your result; its return value must be a string of well-formed HTML. The benefit is you do all this on the server side, so the resulting Javascript is more likely to work with more browsers.