Rails : How to assign name and id to hidden_field_tag?

ruby-on-rails helper hidden-field
krunal shah picture krunal shah · Mar 14, 2011 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

How to assign specific id and name to hidden_field_tag ?

Like this,

hidden_field_tag(:id => "page_no",:name => "page", :value => "1" )

Any Idea!

Answer

Mike Lewis picture Mike Lewis · Mar 14, 2011 
hidden_field_tag("page_name", "1", :id => "page_no")

per http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormTagHelper.html#method-i-hidden_field_tag

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