I have to make a page with a huge table of data, and it has to be editable.
The problem is, some of the fields are supposed to be very long (hundreds of characters), and I need some sort of way to enter this text without disrupting the table's layout, but showing the users the entire text while they're typing.
A good solution would be something that looks just like a vanilla 1-line text box which, when clicked, slides out, pretty much like a <select>, lets the user type in all the text he wants, and then shrinks back to text box size when the user clicks away.
I'm sure there must be something like that for jQuery, but I just can't find it.
Here's how it should act:
Here's what I figured out playing around with some javascript
http://jsfiddle.net/bsWy6/
You can mess with the styling until it is exactly what you want. I think it's pretty close to what you're looking for though.
I am assuming you are populating your table from a database? If that's true, I would use php to generate the id's so that you don't have to type them for every single row, since your functions need to know the exact cell it's working with. If you want help with that code too, just let me know and I'll post it up here. I'm just not sure if you've done anything with php, so I don't want to go into all of it if you don't want it.
Good luck!
I think NicEditor will fit the need. See their inline editing demo.
For each cell, make two fields:
<td id="td-1-2">
<p id="p-1-2">Some text to...</p>
<textarea id="ta-1-2">Some text to...</textarea>
</td>
Then hide the <textarea> and show the <p>. When the user clicks the <p> then hide the <p> and show the <textarea>. Either put a submit button below the textarea or save its contents when it looses focus.
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Background
I have a basic CRUD form/webapp. It happens to be react/redux but for our purposes it doesn't matter much. I'm pretty sure this is an HTML question.
The form itself represents a 'legal document' a bit, and multiple users log in to view/edit it at once. (think kinda google docs ish)
Some users can only view, some can edit.
The Problem
I want my edit users to be able to use the form elements (input/select etc) to modify the data, and my view users to see that same data as similarly as possible.
I want my view users to be able to copy and paste from the screen.
The disabled and readOnly flags won't quite work.
Failed Solutions
Disabled: With a little CSS magic is looks perfect, and the view users don't get onclick reactions they shouldn't. BUT you can't copy and paste the text. This is the current state of the app.
ReadOnly: Isn't supported by many of the inputs I have (select, radio, etc) although it's pretty much perfect for text and texarea.
The Question
Is there a reasonable or elegant way to achieve behaviour like ReadOnly but across all HTML elements?
Clarifications
Since the current view of the page is exactly what I want my view users to see (it's made to look like a paper form a little) If I chose to use 'view mode' spans for my components or a 'view page' mode I would end up having a to make them look as much like my current inputs as possible. It feels weird/bad to try and make a precise recreation of what I have out of spans and divs instead of making what I have behave correctly. Still... it's the backup plan.
We are using all kinds of inputs. Selects and dates and checkboxes oh my. Text and Texarea are well behaved, but the rest get less well behaved.
Readonly propperty is only supported by input and textarea, check caniuse.
As it has been said in a comment, replace input elements by others that don't allow insert data and re-style the elements to look similar if that's what you want.
I'm trying to create a text box mixture of HTML/CSS/JS. My requirement is that when I click on text its completely selected and can be copied but no one can change it when posted in blog. It looks like this:
Clickable box
Help me please.! Thanks in advance.
I need complete code combination of HTML/CSS/JS. I am a beginner however the alternate of this question is given in the link but there is need some improvement in my case that no one could be able to delete the text inside it. If some one could be able to design same box as I provided in 1st link, then It'll be great. Thanks once again.!
You can add this.select() to a onClick. That will make sure, that the whole text is selected, whenever you click your input.
Adding readonly attribute will make sure, that user isn't going to be able to edit the text.
<input onClick="this.select();" value="Sample Text" readonly/>
I have been trying to highlighting multiple search result hits in the textareas - multiple textareas - of a form.
After much searching and many trials I found a solution while I was preparing this question for S.O. but before I submitted it. I thought it worth recording here to save time for anyone else with the same problem. I hope this is an acceptable thing to do on S.O. If not, moderators, please delete.
In the app I'm working on, users enter text and it is stored in MySQL where each record corresponds to a form. Users can recall any record for editing, and when they do, they will be presented with the previously-entered data in text areas again to modify. This all works.
Now, I've implemented a search function to search the whole table, and when the user recalls a record, I want to present it in the form for editing, with any and all search hits on a page highlighted - e.g. like this:
(source: informationtamers.com)
That's simplified, the actual form is longer, so the user may not notice other hits on the page.
I've made it work with a highlight for the first occurrence of the hit string if it's present in the form, but the problem comes when the string appears multiple times in one text area, or in multiple text areas on the same form.
I have tried these approaches:
setSelectionRange: This is the only one that even half-way works, but highlights only one string per form. This makes sense because AFAIK you can't have more than one item selected in an html input field or form and as a UI for someone looking for the results of a search it's not very user-friendly.
add style at the appropriate points in the input text: <span style="background-color: yellow">ZZZZ</span>
I didn't expect this to work, as it's input in textarea, but I did try it and it just shows the html. (For the record, the user's data is escaped immediately it's submitted.)
Invoke the browser's own search facility and pass it the search term. I failed to find any way of doing this on three counts: I can't find a way to trigger Ctrl+f programatically, inject the search term into the browser's search box and initiate the browser search programatically.
Johann Burkard's 'highlight' jQuery plugin. http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/javascript/highlight-javascript-text-higlighting-jquery-plugin.html
This is capable of highlighting multiple entries on a page, but not in textarea fields, which as far as I can see it ignores. I believe I've set it up and invoked it correctly, because I can get it to highlight multiple text area captions on the page. It works by adding <span class="highlight">Search result</span>.
This http://frightanic.com/projects/jquery-highlight/ from frightanic gives results the same as Burkard's plugin.
This http://www.jquery.info/The-plugin-SearchHighlight from Renato is targeted at search engine results, so is not my use case.
This http://jaspreetchahal.org/examples/jquery-onpage-text-highlighter-and-filter.html filters out paragraphs that don't contain a matching string so I didn't try it, but the demo shows that it uses <span style="background:yellow;color:#000000">Search result</span> to highlight, like the others, so I doubt it would work on text areas.
The one that, after some playing around, did what I wanted: http://bebo.minka.name/k2work/libs.js/jquery/2.1.0/highlightTextarea/
Some points to note.
The text areas must not be resizable. The documentation says this, but also documents an option 'resizable' and says that the jQueryUI Resizable is required. I tried this and it did not work. I guess it was an intention but was not debugged, as the author says he's no longer working on the plugin.
I'm using this with colorbox, and found I had to .highlightTextarea("destroy") and then .highlightTextarea("disable") when user leaves the form, or the highlights appeared when viewing records that had no hits.
In some circumstances, the CSS conflicted with mine and messed the form up, so when the user cancels the search, I .remove the form from the DOM and rebuild it. This is probably due to the way I'm using the plugin, and not the best solution, but I couldn't find how else to resolve it.
The result now seems to be solid, and provides the effect I was trying to find for so long.
I want to create a drop down menu (like an <options> tag) in an HTML form. The issue is that I also want the user to be able to not only select from a list of options, but also type in their own if they want. So it would almost be like there was a text field that was automatically filled when you selected something from the drop down box, but you could still edit it.
This is the sort of thing I mean, only its a desktop app on windows (notice how the text can be edited):
I'm pretty flexible about exactly how it looks. If there is another, easy to implement, solution where the user can easy scroll/see a list of options or add in their own that doesn't look like what I described, I'm open to the idea.
Most of the drop down auto type scripts out there will let you type into the input box text that doesn't have to match one of the options in the options list. Just when you go to submit the form be sure to check to see if there is a selectedValue in the drop down and if not grab the drop down's text instead. How to do this will vary on what script you are using. As to what type ahead drop down script to use there are plenty out there, here is an ancient one that works pretty well but there are lot's of others.
http://trappedinhoth.blogspot.com/2008/07/jquery-autocomplete-example.html
HTML 5 even supports an autocomplete drop down
http://trappedinhoth.blogspot.com/2013/03/html-5-datalist-key-value-work-around.html
I hope that points you in the right direction.
I posted awhile ago and got great insight on hide/show text with javascript... Now I need to take this one step further. Can't find the right combination to make it work.
Here's what I NEED:
When a viewer comes to this page, the first hide/show element is displayed in the text box AND
That element is also highlighted a certain color to display that it is active.
Lastly, as every hide/show element is clicked, that stays highlighted until the next is selected.
Here's a link to my dev site. I think it's easier this way.
http://verus.exigodigital.com/services/
Here was my previous post on the hide/show text:
Showing & Hiding Text with Javascript
REALLY appreciate the help, guys! :)
You could make 2 CSS definitions, one for the currently selected textbox, and one for textboxes that aren't selected
When someone clicks on one of the textboxes to edit its contents (the onfocus event), you just call a function that runs through all of your textboxes, and for each one checks if it's the one with focus - if it is, set the className variable of the element to "selected" or something, and it it's not the one with focus then set it's className variable to "normal" or something
If I didn't understand the question or you need more info, just let me know :)