Qustion about autocomplete

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Hi

In a Rails application i use text_with_autocomplete helper. My problem is in a Compose Message page : Imagine a textfield, where i should type my email adresses : i can type many emails separated by colon. - in the view : <%=text_field_with_auto_complete("message", "to", {:size =>90}, :skip_style => true) %> - My controller action splits the received string that could be 'XXX@noorg.com, yo' , and does the search on the last string 'yo' - The partial to show the list woould be then : <ul> <li id="user_1">y...@noorg.com</li> <li id="user_2">yoYYY@noorg.com</li> </ul>

My problem is now to append/replace in my text field the current value before autocompletion ( '...@noorg.com, yo' ) by : Imagine the selected value from the drop down list is 'yoYYY@noorg.com' I'd like to split the textfield value, and replace the second string 'yo' by 'yoYYY@noorg.com', to have as a final result in the textfield : 'XXX@noorg.com, yoYYY@noorg.com'

I tried :before_update_element but that doesn't work

Any help would be appreciated

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Have a look at the :tokens option, see page 545 of the Agile.

-- fxn

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Ok fine it works.. i didn't remember it was supported... Thanks for the pointer in the book...