Showing options on radio button click

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Hello:

I have four radio buttons, each mutually exclusive. I want to show a div area somewhere else on the page when one of these radio buttons is clicked. I know how to do that in HTML - how do I do that in rails? Here's one of my radio buttons:

<%= f.radio_button (:goaltype_id, 1) %>&nbsp;&nbsp;One-Time<br>

Thank you very much in advance!

Mike

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Hi Mike,

Miked wrote:

I want to show a div area somewhere else on the page when one of these radio buttons is clicked.

If you're talking about an Ajax-style update, as a first step, you should take a look at the form types that do that (i.e., submit using XMLHttpRequest). From there, updating a specific div on a page is pretty much a slam dunk using RJS. I strongly recommend Cody Fauser's RJS tutorial on O'Reilly to get your feet wet in that area. Best $10 you'll spend on learning Rails.

hth, Bill

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Hi Bill:

Thanks so much for your reply. I was looking into the XMLHttpRequest but I'm not finding in the rails api. I definitely want to use the ajax method. I've only seen it attached to a submit tag though - can I use it with a radio button as well? Definitely something I want to do. I'm also going to use that book - it looks great, but no time for that until the weekend!

So here's the code:

<% form_remote_tag :url => { :action => :goaltype, :id => product } do %>   <%= f.radio_button ("Goal", "radio", "onetime") %>&nbsp;&nbsp;One-Time<br> <% end %>

And then the RJS code:

page.replace_html("goaltype" , :partial => "goal_type")

But what happens in the controller method, since all I really want it to do is render the partial?

Thanks again.

Mike