Problems with jQuery UI X-editable

Discussion in 'jQuery' started by PoPSiCLe, Oct 21, 2013.

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    Hi. I'm trying to find a usable inline-editor for a page I'm building, and after much trial and error, I've (for now) landed on X-editable. Which, for the most part, seems like a good enough editor, except it's not.

    First of all - the documentation sucks, which I guess isn't a first when it comes to jQuery plugins. However, the worst bit is that some of the possibilities doesn't seem to work at all - for instance the "escape: false/true"-function, which is supposed to give you pure HTML-tags etc. in textarea edits.

    Now, I'm wondering if anyone has used X-editable with success on their site, and if so, can provide me with some real-life examples on (advanced) usage. Or, if anyone has better suggestions for an inline, jQuery-based editor.

    I have the following specs:
    • should provide a choice of inline/popup editor
    • should provide buttons for submitting and cancelling, as well as using enter and escape
    • should be relatively easy to style yourself (adding classes and/or editing existing CSS)
    • should, if using say textarea, allow for either WYSIWYG editing or showing HTML used in the original text area to be edited (UL, P, BR, etc)
    • should allow for multiple editable items for each page, or even one paragraph of text
    • must provide, either via built-in jQuery functionality, or in-app, db-connection through AJAX
    • should allow for activation through buttons which can be mapped to trigger edits on other elements
    • should work with any/all other jQuery plugins - especially jQuery UI
    • should be more or less seamless, unless activated
    • should provide built-in hooks or functions for displaying existing or provided success/error-messages, defined by me
    • should only rely on element-hooks provided by IDs and classes - not (like X-editable) using for instance data-type
    • as simple as possible - I don't need a full editor with full functionality - if used, the users can provide HTML-tags if needed, manually
    Anyone know anything about the escape-functionality in X-editable, or can provide me with tips about any other inline-editing packages? Because X-editable seems to be more or less usable, if only I could make it behave properly within textarea-editboxes, so as to display proper HTML and / or Rich Text editor
     
    PoPSiCLe, Oct 21, 2013 IP