Help porting a bit of Prototype JavaScript to jQuery
- by ewall
I have already implemented some AJAX pagination in my Rails app by using the example code for the will_paginate plugin--which is apparently using Prototype.
But if I wanted to switch to using jQuery for future additions, I really don't want to have the Prototype stuff sitting around too (yes, I know it's possible). I haven't written a lick of JavaScript in years, let alone looked into Prototype and jQuery... so I could use some help converting this bit into jQuery-compatible syntax:
document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
// the element in which we will observe all clicks and capture
// ones originating from pagination links
var container = $(document.body)
if (container) {
var img = new Image
img.src = '/images/spinner.gif'
function createSpinner() {
return new Element('img', { src: img.src, 'class': 'spinner' })
}
container.observe('click', function(e) {
var el = e.element()
if (el.match('.pagination a')) {
el.up('.pagination').insert(createSpinner())
new Ajax.Request(el.href, { method: 'get' })
e.stop()
}
})
}
})
Thanks in advance!
