If you just want to return html that will get dumped into a container
via innerHTML, then I don't really see the need to return json. Just
return the html as text/html and dump the response directly into the
container.
However, the approach you are taking is nice because it lets you add
more metadata to the response.
I do something sort of like this:
response_dict.update({'html': html_table, 'success': 1, 'el_id':
456})
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(response_dict),
mimetype='application/javascript')
Then on the js side of things:
if (json.success) {
document.getElementById(json.el_id).innerHTML = json.html;
} else {
// handle errors here
}
On Aug 10, 7:43 pm, r_f_d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering what people are doing to format html snippets returned
> via XHR. I am currently using code like:
>
> response_dict = {}
>
> t = ModelObject.objects.all()
>
> html_table = render_to_response('table_template.html', {'table': t})
>
> response_dict.update({'table': html_table})
>
> return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(response_dict),
> mimetype='application/javascript')
>
> Where my template contains code to loop through the queryset and
> layout the table appropriately. I also do this with
> form_for_model(instance) to layout the form fields.
>
> This seems pretty appropriate to me, but as I am relatively new to
> python and django, I was wondering if others are doing something
> similar or if there are other suggestions for returning the html
> formatted.
> Thanks
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