Tag Archives: javascript

keeping observe_field and spinner in sync

May 18th, 2010 – 09:23 AM

I am using a lot of observe_fields in my views. I have two searches on my form, one with two fields one with four, and every time a user types something the observe_field is triggered and some search is executed via AJAX. To make sure the user knows what is going on, i use a [...]

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observe_field in IE8: endless loop

March 22nd, 2010 – 08:31 PM

My users showed me the weirdest problem today. In my application is a select-box that allows users to select the classification. When the classification is changed, the div containing the icons for the actions (and the classification-select-box itself) is updated to reflect the new classification. So i use an observe_field to watch the select-box, and [...]

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using content_for jquery on document ready

March 9th, 2010 – 11:42 AM

In my Rails application i use a generic application.rhtml for all my pages. Amongst others, this code contains some jQuery code to manipulate my page

var $j = jQuery.noConflict()

$j(document).ready(function() {

// remove all alt-tags
$j("[alt]").removeAttr("alt");

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jquery validation only one field in a group required

March 4th, 2010 – 11:42 AM

I am using the jQuery validate plugin which is awesome for straightforward form validation. What i especially like is that it offers the user a better user experience, because there is no need for the round-trip to the server.
I still need to do the validation on the server-side (rails) as well. I guess there should [...]

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