Inline Editing Revisited
A while back I talked about this new inline editing control that was being worked on by Mike Davis over on the Encosia blog. Yesterday, he posted an updated version that fixes some postback issues and adds some new features that make this a very useful control. I played around with it a little last night, and it looks great.
Highlights for this release:
- Toggling between edit mode and view mode can be triggered by either a single-click or a double-click. The single-click option is fast but the double-click option allows you to still work with any embedded links in the edit area without going into edit mode which I think is a great option.
- You can determine whether or not the control functions as an inline edit box or as a plain label. This is useful if you only want authenticated users to have the ability use the inline editing functionality. Having this option means you can use the control for the back end and the front end for content management.
- A "ClientIDSuffix" property was added to allow multiple instances of the control on a page. Before, you had to do a little workaround to display multiple instances. The example demonstrates how this property works.
Go take a look and share some feedback: