Question

I have a table of inputs that are read only, and these are populated from a DB. A user is going to be able to double-click on a cell and activate it for editing. In order to send the new data to the DB the user must press a button. The user can also double-click another cell after activating one, and that is my problem. I want to be able to replace the original value of the cell if the focus was lost to something else other than the button.

I have this fiddle that represents my problem.

HTML:

<table>
    <tr>
      <td><input id="1" type="text" value="Data 1" readonly="readonly"/></td>
      <td><input id="2" type="text" value="Data 2" readonly="readonly"/></td>
      <td><input id="3" type="text" value="Data 3" readonly="readonly"/></td>
      <td><input id="4" type="text" value="Data 4" readonly="readonly"/></td>
    </tr>
</table>

<button>Send</button>

JavaScript:

$(document).ready(function(){ 
                var element = null;
                $('input').dblclick(function(){ 
                    $(this).data("backup",$(this).val())                    
                    if(element == null){   
                        $(this).toggleClass("active");
                        $(this).blur(function(event){
                                        window.setTimeout(function(){
                                            if(!$('button').is(':focus')){ 
                                                $(this).val($(this).data("backup"));
                                                //alert("button has no focus");
                                            }  
                                        },100);  
                                    });                  
                        $(this).attr('readonly',!$(this).attr('readonly'));  
                        element = $(this);                           
                    }
                    else{                            
                        if(element.attr('id') == $(this).attr('id')){
                            $(this).toggleClass("active");
                            $(this).attr('readonly',!$(this).attr('readonly'));                                    
                            element = null;
                        } 
                        else{
                            element.toggleClass("active");
                            element.attr('readonly',!element.attr('readonly'));
                            $(this).toggleClass("active");
                            $(this).blur(function(event){
                                        window.setTimeout(function(){
                                            if(!$('button').is(':focus')){ 
                                                $(this).val($(this).data("backup"));
                                                //alert("button has no focus");
                                            }  
                                        },100);  
                                    });
                            $(this).attr('readonly',!$(this).attr('readonly'));
                            element = $(this); 

                        }                                                                                
                    }                        
                });
    $('button').click(function(){
        var value = $('tr').find('.active');
        var data = value.val();
        alert(data);
    });            
});

Answer 1

Inside your doubleclick you could do this to reset the data:

$('input').each(function () {
   if ($(this).data("backup"))
       $(this).val($(this).data("backup"));
});

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/johnkoer/PnSdC/21/