jquery css styling not being applied when appending to the dom

rubyonrails-talk
1

$(‘#message_holder’).append(‘

’ + data.content + ‘
’)

The string gets appended to the message_holder div like so:

<div class="container"><span class="right">9</span><br></div>

but the styling defined in .right doesn't get applied What to do?
2

there are a massive number of possible reasons. you really should do some research on css display types, as I’m assuming right is supposed to be a element with “float: right” but “span” tags don’t respond to floats unless they have been set as block-level elements

3

view:

Conversation with <%= @conversation_with.name %>

<%= content_tag :div, id: "message_holder", data: {conversation_with_id: @conversation_with.id} do %>

<% @messages.each do |m| %> <% if m.sender==@conversation_with.id %>

<%= m.content %>
<% else %>
<%= m.content %>
<% end %> <% end %>

<% end %>

js:

received(data) {

        if (data.sender==$('#message_holder').data-conversation_with_id)
           {
           $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container-left">' + data.content +  '</div>');
           }
        else
           {
           $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container-right">' + data.content + 'converation_with_id:'  +  '</div>');
           }

} });

4

Actually I think my problem is in the content_tag in my view I could rewrite it as html but I may as well get this right the rails way Presently the problem is data-conversation_with_id isn’t being passed to the javascript