I was thinking it would take me a long time to figure out how to use
jquery for this application, but I guess it's been a while since I've
looked at the source because I think I can already spot what I need to
do. I should just be able to copy the function but change .value to
whatever tag attribute I'm stashing the data in. Thanks for the heads
up.
On Aug 7, 1:01 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> This is the source of the web2py ajax function:
>
> function ajax(u,s,t)
> {
> var
> query="";
> for(i=0; i<s.length; i++)
> {
> if(i>0) query=query
> +"&";
> query=query+encodeURIComponent(s[i])+"="+encodeURIComponent
> (document.getElementById(s[i]).value);
> }
> jQuery.ajax({type: "POST", url: u, data: query, success: function
> (msg) { if(t==':eval') eval(msg); else document.getE\
> lementById
> (t).innerHTML=msg; } });
>
> }
>
> As you can see it calls jQuery.ajax which is more powerful and you can
> pass "data" it. I think you can do what you need using the
> jQuery.ajax.
>
> On Aug 6, 6:55 pm, Alastair Medford <alastairmedf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What I'm trying to do is place information into a nornal <a> link,
> > which will be sent along with an onclick ajax call. I know how to do
> > this when the information is from an <input> tag just fine. But in
> > this case I would like the information, like an id, to be contained
> > somewhere in the <a> tag itself.
>
> > The reasoning behind this is I would like to build a jquery tree, and
> > when a link inside is clicked, an ajax function is called that then
> > "knows" which link was clicked and will act accordingly. I've tried
> > sending the <a> tag along by adding its id to the arguments of the
> > ajax call, but its value in request.vars ends up being undefined. I
> > theoreticaly could have a hidden field with each element containing
> > the id but this seems messy. Is there a better way?
>
> > The reason I'm not just straight out callng controller functions is
> > this tree will be generated from a user made xml file. It's then used
> > to find content in another user made file, so it has nothing to with
> > calling certain functions.
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