Posted by Jim Higson on 07/03/75 11:44

decoy@system102.com wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Does anybody know how I can achieve the following?
>
> I have a table that displays some information in plain text, on each
> row I have an edit button that will allow the user to enter new values
> for this row (basically display the same information as before but in
> text boxes with the edit button replaced with a confirm button). When
> the user has updated I would like to go back to the plain text view
> with the new values.
>
> Now comes the hard part ;)
>
> I want to do all of this clientside, allowing the user to click on a
> save button when they have editting that will re-enter all of the
> information back to the DB.

It can't be done completely client-side, you'd still need a thin server
script to listen to and validate information from client and enter it into
the database. This could be done without reloading the client's page
though, using XmlHttp.

> I've looked into the following but it's not really what I intended:
> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/devel/websheet/
>
> Sample code would be greatly appreciated!

What you want can be done with Javascript + DOM without too much fuss, but I
wouldn't recomend it as a first project in those technologies. Is system102
a web design company? In which case, maybe you'd be better off outsourcing
the work?

--
Jim

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