I've tried using libraries such as Lightbox, ThickBox, or iBox for dialogs in my Rails apps (for example, thickbox is at
). They work great for simple stuff, but when I use them to host forms and try to update divs inside the dialogs, I get weird results.... like RJS javascript outputs directly to the screen instead of being executed.
Has anyone tried updating dialogs like this? What libraries have you used.
Thanks, phil
I've had poor luck using those types of libraries for dialogs. I've had good luck, on the other hand, with the YUI Dialogs:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/dialog/index.html
It's fairly powerful and quite stable. In general, once you get the hang of Yahoo's conventions -- and the limitations of the library -- it works very well.
We started to use it for Lingr -- http://lingr.com -- but decided that we couldn't justify forcing that much JS on chatters just for a sign-in dialog. That's the downside of using YUI: even if you only want a little, you have to accept a lot.
I used Lightbox (the Particletree ยป Lightbox Gone Wild! version) with rjs quite heavily, while it worked well. You might want to check if the rjs response comes back with the proper content type. Normally this is the case, unless your app was developed with an earlier rails version and you have left set_content_type kind of filter in. A quick test would be rjs templates without lightboxes.
zsombor
I'd recommend using prototype-windows. It's advantage is it's based on the prototype library already included with rails.
http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/
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