Question

(How) can I tweak jeditable to save the text when focus is lost from the text area? If you don’t supply submit/cancel buttons, then when pressing ‘Enter’ the content is saved … but I haven’t found how to save the content on focus lost.

Answer 1

You can do this by setting the onblur option, like this:

$('.editable').editable('myPage.php', {
  onblur: 'submit'
});

Inside jEditable this is what happens:

} else if ('submit' == settings.onblur) {
   input.blur(function(e) {
     t = setTimeout(function() { form.submit(); }, 200);
   });
}

There are detils for the onblur option at the bottom of the jEditable post here, just search for “onblur” in the page.