RJS Scripting

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm trying to create a search on the index page where it will take a search input and return to the same page. On this page is a list of all the search items. So I want to highlight them all with AJAX and then leave then in bold permanently. The problem comes in evaluating the school and search term. I really have no idea what I'm doing with this.

page.select("#alphabet strong").each do |element|   element.visual_effect :highlight if @search.include? school   element.insert_html *make bold* end

<h3>Search <span>schools</span></h3> <% form_remote_tag :url => { :action => 'result' } do %>   <p>     <%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>     <%= submit_tag "Search", :name => nil %>   </p> <% end %>

<div id="results"> </div>

<h3>Listing <span>Schools</span></h3> <div id="alphabet">   <% 'a'.upto 'z' do |l| %>   <%= l %>     <% for school in @schools %>       <% if school.title.first == l.upcase %>         <strong><%= link_to h (school.title), new_school_course_path(school) %></strong>       <% end %>     <% end %>     <br />   <% end %> </div>

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sounds like you should be using setStyle (a prototype method) to make your elements bold, e.g.:

element.setStyle({fontWeight: 'bold'})

I'm not sure if there's an RJS wrapper for the setStyle method so I'm not entirely sure this will work as written. Something like this will definitely work though:

page << "$(#{element}).setStyle({fontWeight:'bold'});"

... which is kinda the long way around.

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It does not work for some reason.......

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I'm not sure this is the code I'm looking for because I've tried every combination of 'element' including #alphabet dd alphabet dd alphabet and none of those elements work to change the div. More importantly, shouldn't this change the entire div? I would like to only change those that match the search results. My index has two arrays for all schools and the search results @search. Is there really just no way to pass this to javascript for ajax? Would that be useful? Is what I'm implementing just too ridiculous?