Re: can Wonder-Ajax be table-friendly?

Hi Ray,

I never had a problem using AUC in tables, but you need to use proper table elements. Lets say you want to update the table headers, you can't just stick a div between your thead and your tr.  If you do, I suspect you'll get automatic tag creation/closing all over just due to the way the browser's rendering engine works.  You should do something like:

AUC: AjaxUpdateContainer {
	elementName = "tr";
	id = "headerRow1";
}

Or somesuch.  That way, your update container IS the table row, not a div wrapping around it. Divs aren't allowed inside of tables unless it's inside the td/th.

Ramsey

On Jul 14, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote:

> 
> Hey -
> 
> I am trying to use some of the simpler Ajax components in an application. It is working fairly well, so far, when I do small things. I am having issues, though.
> 
> I use tables in my pages. Several of the Ajax components I have tried will do bizarre things when they have table elements in their content. In general, if I keep an Ajax thing completely inside a TD, then it works, but this is leading to some odd looking pages. You get a nice looking table of things and you click an "add" button and one of the cells gets a multi-element form inside it, with all sorts of strange stretching of the table ensuing.
> 
> So, maybe tables are just to un-cool and too "last millennium" to work with Ajax elements?
> 
> My co-worker says not to use tables and one can use DIVs instead. That may be true, but I have been using table tags for 20 years. Is there really no hope?
> 
> Or is there a way to find out which Ajax elements _can_ interact with tables? Some of the js frameworks document the fact that they do not like tables, but is this true for all of them?
> 
> Also, if anyone has suggestions for a new Ajax widget, I would appreciate it. I am going to use an Ajax widget from a 3rd-party company. I am sure that I can make it work in my app. But I am also sure that it will be ugly. But I do not think I grok the Wonder Ajax components well enough to do "the right thing". Here is a live demo of the widget I am wanting to use:
> 
> 	http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxScheduler/sample_timeline.shtml
> 
> Does anyone with better Wonder-Ajax-fu than I have a suggestion?
> 
> thanx - ray
> 
> 
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