Trigger AJAX form submit on change

[Linus Pettersson]

Hi!

I have a small form that I want to submit through AJAX when a dropdown is changed. I have set the form to be :remote => true.

But if I do something like:

$('.element').change ->
    this.form.submit()

The form is not submitted through AJAX. Can I trigger Rails ajax submit function somehow instead of the .submit()?

Regards
Linus

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$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "https://yourdomain.com/path",
data: "requstids="+response.request_ids
}).done(function( msg ) {})
try in this way

[Justin Collum]

I think what you're doing is a bit odd. Submits should really come
from a user directly clicking on a GO button. Changing a dropdown
should be more passive -- it's very easy to mis-click in those things,
leaving the user in an odd spot. If you want to get a set of data etc.
when the user changes the dropdown I'd do a GET via Jquery in the
dropdown's selection change event.

Just my opinion tho.

On Nov 23, 7:30 am, Linus Pettersson <linus.petters...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Linus Pettersson]

Yes, of course. This was only in an Admin interface where I will need to quickly select a dropdown only for each post. It is very tedious to select and then click a button when you might need to do it like a couple of thousand times :)

I use Active Admin which comes with an old jQuery / rails javascript. I updated it and then I could do this:

$('#myform select.something').change ->

    form = $(this.form)

    form.trigger 'submit.rails'

    ....

Works great! :)