[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-05 Thread Niphlod
ok, let me rephrase the final statement... The "official" way (since _href and cid are way back in web2py's history) should be A('mypage', _href=URL('myfunction'), cid='myID') Full Stop(s). . . . For backward compatibility, the following does the same thing, but I don't think it's documented

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-05 Thread Anthony
Not sure we're talking about the same thing. I'm just saying that if you specify *only* the "target" attribute, but not "cid" or "component", then you don't get an Ajax component: >>> A('mypage', _href=URL('myfunction'), target='myID').xml() 'mypage' Notice in the above output, there is no data

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-05 Thread Niphlod
nope, https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/html.py#L1506 adds it for cid. Basically when I reviewed all the combinations for the A helper porting it to work with the new data-style attributes, I found no use for the component argument because it was really similar to something ach

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-04 Thread Anthony
> A('mypage', _href=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') >>> >> >> Shouldn't above be: >> >> A('mypage', component=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') >> >> >> > does the exact same thing but I don't think that *component* as an > argument was ever documented. > I just meant that according to the

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-04 Thread Niphlod
On Monday, November 4, 2013 2:09:39 AM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: > > > A('mypage', _href=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') >> > > Shouldn't above be: > > A('mypage', component=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') > > > does the exact same thing but I don't think that *component* as an argument was ever

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-03 Thread Anthony
> A('mypage', _href=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') > Shouldn't above be: A('mypage', component=URL('myfunction'), target='myID') -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/is

[web2py] Re: Anchor callback option and form submit

2013-11-03 Thread Niphlod
the callback argument is not meant to load a fragment and keep it like a component (meaning, trapping all links, form submissions, redirections etc. in that fragment). callback was meant instead to either click on a button and show the result in a fragment (i.e. "action completed") and/or click