Please clearify «targets»

[chmich]

Hi,

Many of your functions have the first attribute: targets.

I made a test on turbo_frame_set_src and noticed that its interpreting a simple string as id, because: #cars-box does not work while cars-box successfully targets the element with the id cars-box.

So under targets I would expect that a value like .cars-box would affect all matching elements as it would be the case with jquery.

Could you please clarify this?

On my gem, which includes yours in many cases, I kept the same naming because I thought target was a good naming for what it means, but clarified that target has a value like #my-target in logs, for example.

And why not allow css matchers like .customer-wrapper > #form? Yes, html-id should be unique, but this is hard to control and for complex pages child selectors would be a help.

Thanks, Chris

[Timmitry]

I want to add to this that I was also quite confused. Turbo-Rails always supports two possible variants:

turbo_stream.replace("myid") # Will target a single node with id="myid"
turbo_stream.replace_all("#myid") # Will target all nodes with id="myid" (still only one as IDs need to be unique)

Note the usage of # in the second example, but not in the first example.

So, when using turbo_stream.morph, I thought that I had to use "myid" as target, but actually needed to specify "#myid", which is confusing.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts, I now have the morphing working like a charm 😊