Build your own Ajaxs applications - Chapter 5

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Hi,

has anybody been able to put example of chapter 5 in practice?

The chapter starts with entering some sample entries to the page.

As a temporary measure, we’ll attach event handlers to the ondblclick events of these two entries in the init method of our Blog class:

so enter

var entry1 = document.getElementById(‘main1’);
var entry2 = document.getElementById(‘main2’);
entry1.ondblclick = self.toggleEditInPlace;
entry2.ondblclick = self.toggleEditInPlace;

and then it goes on saying:

We’ll replace this code later, but it will serve our current development purposes just fine.

And that’s all working fine, but as I read the chapter I did not find any replacement.

Lets say I like to use it on real web site where I would have 15+ comments. How can I attach the double click event to all of them? In the book
we hard wire 2 comments but that about it.

Obviously the code should be finding all available comments and making them editable on the double click event.

Did I miss something? Please if you have some experience, let me know.

Thanks

2

I need to read the chapter itself so my answer may not be very accurate… but if you are thinking about generalising the concept, you’ll need a function that sets a generic var entry with the correct elment ID and then toggle the Edition.

Now, I don’t remember the code so I’d probably need to read the chapter again. More into JQuery these days :lol:

3

Thanks for your reply!

I have a project where I need to implement a solid solution for edit in place functionality.

Do you know about any good solutions?

Thanks

4

There are plenty of examples out there with and without JQuery. Are you creating the page, or are you using something like Joomla or WordPress or any other CMS?

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I am not using any CMS, just building stand alone application.