Thanks for update. On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, 6:38 am Rob Paire, <robert.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I stepped through the Web2py AJAX call in the debugger and found that > the hang-up was due to jquery serialize method. That method wants a form > variable name as input. The easiest solution is to wrap the table in a set > of form tags and then modify the TD so that it contains a form input object > like this: > > <td> <INPUT type="text" id="s" name = "s" value="ajaxdata" onfocusout=" > ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['s'],'target');"/> </td> > > now the ajax call works as expected. A dash of CSS to hide the field > borders and the end results look acceptable! > > Thank you for all your help > > On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 6:34:45 PM UTC-4, Rob Paire wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> I am trying to send data entered into the contenteditable feature of a >> row object using a Web2py AJAX call, and it's not working. >> >> The problem is illustrated below in a sample View file with two Ajax >> calls. The first call, from the manual, uses an input form variable and it >> works fine. In second call I tried passing the Name of the editable content >> object to the AJAX call, but it does not work. In short, I want to send >> document.getElementById('q').innerHTML as the data parameter of the ajax >> function - how is this done? I tried various combinations of dict strings >> {'key':'value'} as the data parameter but nothing seemed to work. >> >> Note: the controller data function looks for both r and q request.vars >> >> {{extend 'layout.html'}} >> <div id="target"></div> >> <p>Ajax call example from the manual works perfectly.. the data appears >> in the target Above.</p> >> <form> >> <INPUT type="text" id="r" name = "r" value="web4py"/> >> <INPUT type="button" value="submit" >> onclick="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['r'],'target');"/> >> </form> >> <hr> >> >> <table border="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >> align="center"> >> <TR> >> <td COLSPAN="1" align="right" BGCOLOR="#EAACE1"> <b> >> >> This AJAX call does not work:</b> </td> <td >> onfocusout="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['q'],'target');" >> contenteditable="true" id="q" name="q" COLSPAN="1" > ajaxdata </td> >> >> <td COLSPAN="1"> how do I pass the contenteditable data M to the AJAX >> function? </td> >> </tr> >> </table> >> >> Thank you kindly >> -Rob >> >> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/6b8bc494-d26d-4136-bb02-2cbc4b498f14o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/6b8bc494-d26d-4136-bb02-2cbc4b498f14o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/CACWMBMNJABQGN8tCxXy0ghuvuH8-K75rse0np65LwQhzSY%3D4Pw%40mail.gmail.com.