What is the purpose of data-w2p_disable_with?

[User]

Links I build with the anchor A html helper look like:

<a href="/myapp/mycontroller/view/5" data-w2p_disable_with="default">Anchor Text</a>

What is the purpose of the data-w2p_disable_with = "default" attribute and how can I remove it?

[Anthony]

That's so the link can be temporarily disabled (the text will be replaced with "Working...") when it is used to trigger an Ajax request. However, I don't know why it's included in the anchor tag in all cases -- seems like it would only be needed when the "cid", "component", or "callback" arguments are used.

Anthony

[User]

Good to know.  How can I remove it for all my links?

[User]

Anyone know how to remove it?  I'm about to switch to using raw html instead of A helper but if someone knows a way to remove the "data-w2p_disable_with" attribute I'd rather do that.  If there is not an official way perhaps there is a hack where I could redefine the A helper somehow

[Anthony]

It shouldn't be causing any problems, so you don't really have to remove it. Unfortunately, it is inserted by the .xml() method, so you can't just manipulate the A() object. Instead, you can do:

{{=XML(A(...).xml().replace(' data-w2p_disable_with="default"', ''))}}

I suppose you could make a class that does that:

class A2(A):
    def xml(self):
        return super(A2, self).xml().replace(' data-w2p_disable_with="default"', '')

Anyway, we should probably change the behavior of A() so it doesn't add that attribute when not needed.

Anthony

[User]

I see this is fixed in trunk now http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/detail?r=ed705d58b82c0d2363b04e69256c9fe122434a37

thanks guys