November 8, 2006

DHTML Text Editing Widgets?

Hey all. I'm working on what I hope is a pretty nifty new feature for Bugzilla that will make it easier for developers to organize their bug lists and work productively. I'm not ready to demo this quite yet, so instead I submit a lazyweb request and hopefully someone can help move this along:

I'm looking for a fancy DHTML/Web2.0/Interweb++ widget for text editing. Basically, I need text to appear as normal unadorned plain text, but when you double click it, it becomes editable. Focusing something else makes the text turn back to plain text again. I can kind of fake this myself by hiding and showing a form widget, but that's exceedingly ugly unless styled perfectly in a cross-browser way and I know that someone must have done this before. Note that I do not need rich text support, just plain text. If you've seen such a widget, a comment with a link would be much appreciated.

Bonus points if it works in IE, but Firefox-only would be ok for now.

I'll let you all know when I've got something ready to try out.

Posted by zach at 8:50 AM | Comments (6)