Question

I need a solution to this problem:

I have a django site that displays all recipes in a recipe list

each of these recipes is a link that when clicked should load the fields of that recipe into a popupdiv

so far I have the popup div all set – now i just need to figure out how to access the recipe fields of that button.

basically the content i would like to load is recipe.name recipe.author recipe.steps etc
but i don’t know how to.

Right now I also have a form being loaded into the div using ajax so I don’t want to interfere in anyway with the ajax call (i will post this code as well). Would it make sense to also use ajax for a problem like this?

here is my button click function

$(document).ready(function(){

    $(".button").click(function(){
        var content = $("#popupContact").load($('#recipe'));
    });
});

here is the template for my page:

{% block content %}
{% autopaginate recipe_list 6 %}
    <div id="recipe_cont">
            {% for recipe in recipe_list %}
        <div class="recipe">
            <div class="button">//here is the button that is clicked to load recipe 
            <a href="{% url cookbook.views.userrecipe recipe.id %}" style="display: none;"></a>   
            <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}chicknbraw.jpg" alt="" height="70" width="70" style="display:inline;" />
            <h4>{{ recipe.name }}</h4>
             </div>
            <h5>{{ recipe.author }}</h5>
            <h5>Prep Time: {{ recipe.prep_time }} minutes</h5>

            <h6><a href="/addrecipe/{{ recipe.id }}">Add Recipe</a>
                <a href="/removerecipe/{{ recipe.id }}">Remove Recipe</a></h6>
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
    </div>

    <div id="popupContact" class="popup">//load recipe information into this div
            <a id="popupContactClose" style="cursor:pointer;float:right;">x</a>
            <p id="contactArea">
            <h1 style="text-align:center">Create New Recipe</h1>
            {% include 'cookbook/create_form.html' %} //this is for the form that is loaded. Is there a way to include a different template? Maybe have multiple contactAreas and hide/show different ones depending on what is being loaded?
            </p>
    </div>
    <div id="backgroundPopup">
    </div>  
    <div id="col2-footer">
    {% paginate %}
    <p id="recipe_order_text"> order by: <a href="/userbook/ordered/name">abc</a>|<a href="/userbook/ordered/date">date</a> 
    </div>

{% endblock %}

here is the form ajax call:

$(document).ready(function(){

    function hijack() {
        var form = $('form#createrecipeform');
        form.each (function(){
            this.reset();
            });
        form.submit(function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            console.log('ajax form submission function called successfully.');
            //form = $(this);
            console.log(form)
            var serialized_form = form.serialize();
            $.ajax({ type: "POST", 
                url: $(this).attr('action'),
                data: serialized_form, 
                success: (function(data) { 
                    console.log('ajax success function called successfully.');
                    data = $.parseJSON(data);
                    if (data.success) {
                        console.log('success');
                    } else {        
                        console.log('failure');
                        var newForm = data.form;
                        form.replaceWith(newForm);
                        hijack();
                    }
                })
            });
            return false;
        });
    };

    hijack();

});

thanks a lot for any solutions you may have

katie

Answer 1

I ended up creating a div that is hidden for each recipe that is loaded and then used .html() to place each of the divs wihtin the popup

this ended up working perfectly – better then replaceWith append or clone

thank you for your help @akhaku