Button_to_remote problem on 2.3.2

Rails
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Sorry about the previous aborted post… Here is the full post.

I have a link_to_remote call that works as expected (using Rails 2.3.2):

<%= link_to_remote “-”, { :url => { :action => :remove_from_cart, :id =>
cart_item.product} }, { :href => url_for(:action => :remove_from_cart,
:id => cart_item.product) } %>

It fallsback correctly when javascript is not enabled.

However, substituting with button_to_remote, does not behave correctly:

<%= button_to_remote “-”, { :url => { :action => :remove_from_cart, :id
=> cart_item.product} }, { :href => url_for(:action =>
:remove_from_cart, :id => cart_item.product) } %>

With javascript enabled it works fine. But if javascript disabled, the
fallback :href url is not followed. I.e. it does not work.

Has anybody encountered this problem. Aren’t both meant to have exactly
the same options?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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On May 1, 5:17 am, Eddie R. [email protected]
wrote:

However, substituting with button_to_remote, does not behave correctly:

<%= button_to_remote “-”, { :url => { :action => :remove_from_cart, :id
=> cart_item.product} }, { :href => url_for(:action =>
:remove_from_cart, :id => cart_item.product) } %>

With javascript enabled it works fine. But if javascript disabled, the
fallback :href url is not followed. I.e. it does not work.

Have you looked at the generated html to see what might be amiss?

Fred

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Definetely it won’t work, just because standalone buttons should not
do anything when javascript is disabled. That’s by design.

Dmitry

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Dmitry S. wrote:

Definetely it won’t work, just because standalone buttons should not
do anything when javascript is disabled. That’s by design.

Dmitry

So it appears. button_to_remote generates the code:

which would not recognise the href. I was lulled by the description in
the API docs, believing that it says the button_to_remote behaves the
same as link_to_remote. With hindsight and closer reading, it only says
that the :url and callbacks are the same (ie silent on the Javascript
degradation).

Thanks.