From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T23:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: if-less if statements

Hi --

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Shandy Nantz wrote:

> I asked this on the rails side of this forum but didn't get a response
> and while I am using the code in a rails app I think that this is a ruby
> question.
>
> In a helper that I am using, I am seeing if a phone # gets entered
> correctly, if not default text is entered in it's place and displayed in
> red.
>
> <%= in_place_editor_field 'user','w_phone',{ :style => @user.w_phone ==
> 'Click
>    to Edit' ? 'color:red;' : ''}, :cols=>20%>
>
> This highlets everything in that comes through with 'Click to Edit' in
> red. But what I would like to do is to hightlight everything in red if
> the string says either 'Click to Edit' of 'Check Format'. So I tried
> this:
>
> <%= in_place_editor_field 'user','w_phone',{ :style => @user.w_phone ==
> 'Click
>    to Edit' ? 'color:red;' : @user.w_phone == "Check Format  " ?
> 'color:red;'
>    : ''}, :cols=>20%>
>
> This codes executes fine but it doesn't show the 'Check Format' part as
> red, so I'm thinking that I don't have the conditions set up wrong.
> Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks,

It looks like you've got extra spaces: "Check Format  ". Is that
right?


David

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