I have a small admin panel that I have created to do simple database tasks for my DayZ server. Now I want to make a simple editor for the news blurb on my website. The news blurb is stored in a table on my database. What I want is when the page loads it simply echo's the data and looks like it does on the live site. Then, when I click on it, I want it to convert into:
<textarea name="edit><?php echo news; ?></textarea>
This is my current code:
function divClicked() {
var divHtml = $(this).html();
var editableText = $("<textarea name="edit" />");
editableText.val(divHtml);
$(this).replaceWith(editableText);
editableText.focus();
// setup the blur event for this new textarea
editableText.blur(editableTextBlurred);
}
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#editable").click(divClicked);
});
<form method="post" action="newsedit.php">
<div id="editable"><?php echo $news; ?></div>
<input type="submit" value="Edit News" />
</form>
Now, this does work in the sense that when I click on the text it does convert into a textarea. The problem is that it doesn't give it the "edit" name so when I hit the sumbit button, it is as if I submitted nothing and it deletes all the data out of the table because
<textarea name="edit"></textarea>
is technically empty. Are there any ways to make it so when I click on the text it will convert the code to textarea with that specific name so there is actual data when I hit submit?
Change the form to:
<form method="post" action="newsedit.php">
<div id="<?php echo $newsID;?>"><?php echo nl2br($news); ?></div>
<input type="submit" value="Edit News" />
</form>
Where $newsID is returned along with the $news text.
The nl2br($news) will just make sure the line breaks are honored.
var editableText = $("<textarea name='edit' />");
http://jsfiddle.net/H5aM4/ inspect the textarea
TRY This
$("#editable").click( function(){
$(this).replaceWith(function() {
return $("<textarea name='edit'>").text(this.innerHTML);
});
});