I'm not sure why your code does not work (maybe there is a "race condition"
between the JS click handlers), but that global variable is a bad idea in
general.
You can add the comment ID as an attribute to your button, like
<button class="btn btn-info" id="like_comment_button" data-comment-id="{{
comment.id }}">
and in your event handler obtain the comment id
$("#like_comment_button").click(function (event) {
var comment_id = event.target.getAttribute('data-comment-id')
// Call AJAX
})
That way you don't need the global variable or the other click handler
Finally, it's a bad idea to have multiple elements with the same ID (all
comments will have a button with ID "like_comment_button") so it's better
to add it as a class rather than an id.
Regards
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:19 AM Simon Connah <scopensou...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I know that the standard way to do this is to create a script tag with
> a global JS variable in your Django template before you import your
> other JS files but that won't work for my current situation.
>
> I have an article detail view which is a single model instance. But I
> also have a list of comment objects that have a Foreign Key to the
> article (because that is the article that is being commented on).
>
> I need to pass the comment_id to the JS files that I am loading. If
> you want to see the code I am using then you can see it here:
>
>
> https://gitlab.com/glamorous-systems/seductive/blob/master/blog/templates/blog/article_detail.html
>
> I thought I'd use an onclick event on the Like / Dislike button to
> call a JS function which then passes that value to this JS file:
>
>
> https://gitlab.com/glamorous-systems/seductive/blob/master/blog/static/js/pass_comment_id.js
>
> and then I'd just call the return_comment_id() function from my other
> JS files to get the comment_id of the specific comment the user
> clicked the Like / Dislike button for. I think the problem is that my
> jQuery AJAX selectors are also looking for a click event, so they
> happen in a strange order, but I'm not sure.
>
> I'm totally lost on what I should be doing here. Any help would be
> very much appreciated :).
>
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