Rails 3: link_to with "data-confirm"

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Hi,

has anyone experienced any problems with the new link_to and data-confirm in Rails3? It seems when you create a link with instead of link text, an image, the confirm message isn't shown.

            <%=                 link_to(                         image_tag("delete.png", :alt => t("helpers.label.destroy")),                         admin_category_path(:id => record, :format => :js),                         "data-method" => "delete",                         "data-confirm" => "#{t("categories.delete")}",                         :remote => true                 )             %>

The above example deletes the record without asking confirmation first.

<%= link_to("Delete", admin_category_path(:id => record, :format => :js), "data-method" => "delete", "data-confirm" => "#{t("categories.delete")}", :remote => true) %>

The above example here, where the only difference is instead of an image, you have a text link, the confirmation message is show.

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Did you find a solution to this? I just hit this myself last night and have spent a few hours trying to find an answer.

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Hi Ray, I fixed the problem some time ago, but I'm not sure anymore what the problem was.

I know I had some other problems as well, And they where all related to a conflicting javascript library that I developed. It was not conflicting with rails.js but with prototype.js .

I know I also upgraded the rails.js file to the latest version as well as prototype (1.7 rc)

Ray Parker wrote:

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I'll check into 1.7. I confirmed that this is a problem with Rails3.beta4:

Create a new project, generate a scaffold for some Foo class. Confirm that the delete link from the index page gives you a confirmation dialog. Change the "Destroy" text to an image_tag and the confirmation no longer works. I read somewhere else that this was an issue with the JS library and the way that it's referring to page elements.