Hi there,

do you have any idea why AJAX DATA API doesn't call function onEdit() when typing in some text into description field <textarea name="description" data-track-input data-request="onEdit"></textarea>

while <input name="title" type="text" data-track-input data-request="onEdit"> does ?

thanks in advance for your kind support. best, Alexander

Last updated 3 years ago

textareas have a different set of calls from inputs.

Last updated 3 years ago

joseph.w.crowell30463 said:

textareas have a different set of calls from inputs.

of course, but why did data-track-input do not work on textareas ?

data-track-input

can be applied to a text, number, or password input field that also has the data-request attribute. When defined, the input field automatically sends an AJAX request when a user types something in the field. The optional attribute value can define the interval, in milliseconds, the framework waits before it sends the requests.

ref. https://octobercms.com/docs/ajax/attributes-api

mjauvin said:

data-track-input

can be applied to a text, number, or password input field that also has the data-request attribute. When defined, the input field automatically sends an AJAX request when a user types something in the field. The optional attribute value can define the interval, in milliseconds, the framework waits before it sends the requests.

ref. https://octobercms.com/docs/ajax/attributes-api

thanks so far for that reference. I already checked this out. Current AJAX DATA API works fine for elements like <select>, <input> etc... it does not work for <input type="date">, <input type="time"> or even <textarea>. This leads me to conclusion that there might be some defects in October's DATA / JS API implementation for those form elements. How do you manage to forward data entry from textarea elements into data models.

I would like to have somelike

<textarea name="description" data-request="onTypeAhead" data-track-input="5">{{ record.description}}</textarea

....

function onTypeAhead(){ $entry = input('description'); $record->(['description' => $entry]); $this['record'] = $record; }

just to record every keystroke into the data model

Just use Javascript I guess.