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KeyEditableTable: Mixing DataTables, KeyTables and jEditable all together

Soumis par Gaël Pegliasco le 11/03/2010 - 17:03

Problem description

Now that Web 2.0 is here, everybody enjoys to metamorphose his web browser into a rich, very rich, client application, like a real desktop application.
Thats not always a good idea... Web has to be kept simple.

Nevertheless, Google and Yahoo have proved many times that is possible.

Since Google doc has been released, everybody wants to be able to manage HTML tables as OpenOffice or Excel spreadsheets do.

And fortunatly a lot of Javascript API provides this kind of functionalities:

HOWTO Create complex editable fields with JEditable and make it sending all form content.

Soumis par Gaël Pegliasco le 22/11/2009 - 23:11

Problem description

If you are using JEditable, you probably know the nice tutorial and all its very useful comments to create custom editable fields : Create custom input types with JEditable

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But JEditable has a point that may be blocking in more complex applications: it only returns one input field to the submitted form/request in charge of editing the record.
And some time this simply does not do the trick.