Hi,
I have a form with a text_field in one of my views in RAILS. I need to:
1. put a 'reset' button so that I can clear (set to blank) the text_field
when the user clicks on the button
and
2. retain value in text_field: I have a 'search' button that performs search
(not Ajax livesearch... it's a simple search and I wrote the code in my
controller). Now, when the user puts some text (query) in the text_field and
clicks on 'search', the results are shown ok, but I need to retain the text
in the text-field that the user put in. Also I need to set the focus to this
text_field after the results are shown.
The relevant code in the view is:
<%= start_form_tag :action => 'search'%>
<%= text_field :server, :server_name, :size => 15 %>
<%= submit_tag 'Search' %>
<%= end_form_tag %>
<%= set_focus_to_id 'server_server_name' %>
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Arif
the above will display a "Reset Form" button which will reset all the
field values in your form.
2. retain value in text_field: I have a 'search' button that performs search
(not Ajax livesearch... it's a simple search and I wrote the code in my
controller). Now, when the user puts some text (query) in the text_field and
clicks on 'search', the results are shown ok, but I need to retain the text
in the text-field that the user put in. Also I need to set the focus to this
text_field after the results are shown.
you'll have to store the search params in an ivar in your controller,
and then repopulate them into the search form using text_field_tag
like I did above with "text_field_tag('search_string',
@search_string)" which will fill in the text field with whatever value
is stored in @search_string.
The relevant code in the view is:
<%= start_form_tag :action => 'search'%>
<%= text_field :server, :server_name, :size => 15 %>
<%= submit_tag 'Search' %>
<%= end_form_tag %>
<%= set_focus_to_id 'server_server_name' %>
don't use start_form_tag or end_form_tag, they've been deprecated.
