Update multiple fields with onclick

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We've all seen the checkout forms with Bill To: and Ship To: I'd like to have a button that says "Ship to Bill To:" and if we click it, it copies all the Ship To: fields across such as phone, email, etc. I've been looking at link_to_function, is that the right path? I've done observe_fields before but that went to a controller action whereas here we could get by just copying params[field_values]. Thanks, David

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InventoryTrackers wrote:

We've all seen the checkout forms with Bill To: and Ship To: I'd like to have a button that says "Ship to Bill To:" and if we click it, it copies all the Ship To: fields across such as phone, email, etc. I've been looking at link_to_function, is that the right path?

Probably. The JavaScript for this should be very simple to write. If I were you, though, I wouldn't use link_to_function unless you're already on Rails 3: Rails 2's JS helpers mix JS into your HTML, where it really doesn't belong.

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Probably a whole lot easier if you just have a checkbox indicating if the ship is the same as the bill_to. Pretty common to do that less hassle.