Havardpede
Updating dom on phx-change on text input
I am working on creating a multi-page application form.
I have decided to hide the next-button until there is an answer for each question on the page.
To detect when an answer is updated, I have tried the following:
-
Attaching a
phx-blurto the inputs. This worked, but forced the user to exit the input, which wasnt intuitive enough in certain cases. -
Attaching a
phx-keyupto inputs. I could not find a way to attach a reference to indicate which input was being edited, so I could update the relevant answer. -
Wrapping the inputs in a
<form>withphx-change. This triggered the event correctly, but did not reload the DOM. I even converted the navbar into alive_component, and tried triggering a forced re-render withsend_update/2.
Do you have any ideas on how to handle this case?
Thanks in advance 
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outlog
ok, did the debugging..
error is the “%” at the end of your:
<input type=“string” name=“input” value=“<%= @answer %>” class=“border” %>
that breaks phoenix_live_view.js - remove that and you are good to go..
btw type=“string” is not standard HTML input type Attribute so maybe use “text”
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socket
|> assign(:show_button, answer != "")
|> assign(:answer, answer)
{:noreply, socket}
seems like those assigns doesn’t go on the socket/reply eg you need
socket = socket
|> assign(:show_button, answer != "")
|> assign(:answer, answer)
{:noreply, socket}
this is a bit of OOP vs FP..
socket
|> assign(:show_button, answer != "")
|> assign(:answer, answer)
is basically a noop in FP - while in OOP it would most likely have mutated “socket”
Havardpede
Oh wow yeah that was obvious. Thank you 
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