Jeditable to edit a link. Help

Question

I have been playing around with jeditable for 2 days now, and it's great!

But I got a little problem, I have a link which should be editable, but whenever the field become editable, I can't edit that field, when I click, it jumps right to that link.

Any solution?

Here is my code

<a href="$homeurl/$hashkey" class="editsubject" id="$hashkey">$subject</a><span class="edittrigger" style="cursor:pointer;background:#EEEEEE;">edit</span>


$(document).ready(function() {
             $('.editsubject').editable('editsubject.php', {  
                    event : 'editclick',
                    cancel : 'Cancel',
                    submit : 'OK',
                    indicator : 'Wait...',
                    id : 'hk',
                    name : 'ns',
                    css : 'inherit'
             });
            $('.edittrigger').bind('click', function() {
                $(this).prev().trigger('editclick');
            });
         });

Thanks

Answer 1

Use javascript to disable the link in the case that it contains a form. Job done:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('a.my-editable-link').click(function() {
    form = $(this).find('form');
    if (form.length) {
      form.submit();
      return false;
    } else {
      return true;
    }
  }
})

Answer 2

jEditable problem, here's a workaround

I would use a hidden span and then have it replace the text of the link on submit, and when you click on the trigger, make the link invisible and show the hidden span

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.proxyedit').editable('editsubject.php', {  
        event : 'editclick',
        cancel : 'Cancel',
        submit : 'OK',
        indicator : 'Wait...',
        id : 'hk',
        name : 'ns',
        css : 'inherit',
        callback : function(value, settings) {
            $(this).css({'display':'none'});
            $('.editsubject').text($(this).text()).css({'display':'inline'});
        }

    });
    $('.edittrigger').bind('click', function() {
        $(this).prev().trigger('editclick');
        $('.proxyedit').css({'display':'inline'});
        $('.editsubject').css({'display':'none'});
    });
});
</script>

in the body

<a href="$homeurl/$hashkey" class="editsubject" id="$hashkey">$subject</a><span style="display:none;" class="proxyedit">$subject</span><span class="edittrigger" style="cursor:pointer;background:#EEEEEE;">edit</span>

Answer 3

You can disable links which are editable with jQuery. Something like:

$(".editable a").bind("click", function(event) {
    return false;
});