Ha, I was right:
> Do blocks allow me to split insert the contents of a view into different
> parts of the layout?
It’s a good thing that it is a really complex mechanism, so I don’t look like a
total idiot ;-)
Many thanks - fantastic to get such a quick answer.
Cheers,
David
> On 31 Mar 2017, at 15:56, Carlos Costa <yamandu.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A proper way to do this is to put the page javascript in the page_js block
> It is the declared in the default layout.html.
>
> To use it just do this in your view
>
> {{block page_js}}
> ...put your js here...
> {{end page_js}}
>
> This way it will be inserted in the right place into the rendered page.
>
>
> 2017-03-31 11:45 GMT-03:00 David Orme <david.o...@gmail.com
> <mailto:david.o...@gmail.com>>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using wavesurfer in a site, so have included it at the bottom of
> layout.html.
>
> <!-- The javascript -->
> <script src="{{=URL('static','js/bootstrap.min.js')}}"></script>
> <script src="{{=URL('static','js/web2py-bootstrap3.js')}}"></script>
> <script
> src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/wavesurfer.js/1.0.52/wavesurfer.min.js
>
> <http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/wavesurfer.js/1.0.52/wavesurfer.min.js>"></script>
>
> But then one of my views has javascript code to setup a wavesurfer player.
> This is currently included at the bottom of the view - note that it includes
> some web2py expressions to populate variables.
>
> <!-- The javascript =============================== -->
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var wavesurfer = WaveSurfer.create({
> container: '#waveform',
> });
> wavesurfer.load("{{=URL('static', record.static_filepath)}}");
> </script>
>
> It doesn't work, but I think for the simple reason that the script in the
> view is included ahead of the scripts loaded in the layout (the contents of
> the view all gets stuck inside {{include}} in the layout, right?). If I put
> copy those layout javascript lines into the view ahead of my local inline
> script, then it works. However, I don't think I want pages loading the same
> javascript twice, so now I have to load those javascript files at the end of
> every view.
>
> Is there a canonical way to handle this? Do blocks allow me to split insert
> the contents of a view into different parts of the layout? Or am I better off
> turning the script into a static JS file that all pages load and adding a
> simple order-agnostic javascript to define the java variables.
>
> Many thanks,
> David
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