Use Ajax on Exposed Filter of a View but NOT on the pager of that View

Question

I'm experimenting with a "page" view, and would like to submit the view's exposed filters via Ajax, but not the same views pager.(I currently have a checkbox "has taxonomy term" filter that has been enhanced by the BEF module.)

Currently if I select "Use Ajax: Yes" in the "Advanced" column of the views settings, both the pager and exposed filter are submitted via Ajax. Is there a way to make it so that only the exposed filter submits via Ajax, and the pager reloads the page with the default "?page=X' GET parameter?

I was thinking I could leave "Use Ajax: No" in the view settings, and then somehow add the ajax functionality to the exposed form, via some hook. (form_alter?) Or maybe add some inline javascript which disables the ajax functionality of the pager? (which isn't even a form.)

Hoping someone could point me in the right path. (Using Drupal 7 and Views 3)

Answer 1

I'm sure you've found a solution / workaround for this by now, but this thread came up while I was faced with the same issue, so I figured I'd share the solution that worked for me.

All I did was simply remove Drupal's AJAX event handler from the pager links using jQuery's unbind method, e.g.:

$('.pager a').unbind();

With the event handlers removed, the pagination links fall back on the HREF URLs contained within the anchor tags.

Answer 2

I don't think what you're describing will be easy, due to the nature of the ajax function.

just thinking outloud (in type?) here: leave ajax on, limit results to 25. add an offset filter to the contextual filters, the default being "0". use a custom paging function (custom footer in view? template?) and generate links with the offset (and your form values?) for use by your contextual filters.