Question

I have written html file, where in I have created a table. So for each row I want to define add, edit and delete links.

The code for html file is as below:

        <div id="users-contain" class="ui-widget">
        <h1>Existing Users:</h1>
        <table id="users" class="ui-widget ui-widget-content">
            <thead>
                <tr class="ui-widget-header ">
                    <th>Name</th>
                    <th>Email</th>
                    <th>Password</th>
                    <th>Actions</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <tr>
                    <td class="custom-name">John Doe</td>
                    <td>[e-mail]</td>
                    <td>johndoe1</td>
                    <td><a href="">Edit</a></td>
                    <td><span class="delete"><a href="">Delete</a></span></td>
                </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>
    <button id="create-user">
        Create new user
    </button>

The modal for add action is as below:

        <div id="dialog-form" title="Create new user">
        <p class="validateTips">
            All form fields are required.
        </p>
        <form>
            <fieldset>
                <label for="first_name">First Name</label>
                <select id="first-name">
                    <option value="1">Arun</option>
                    <option value="2">Ganesh</option>
                    <option value="3">Suresh</option>
                    <option value="4">Sanganabasu</option>
                </select>
                <label for="last_name">Last Name</label>
                <select id="last-name">
                    <option value="1">Hulagabal</option>
                    <option value="2">Cheemalamudi</option>
                    <option value="3">Ganiger</option>
                    <option value="4">Kattriguppe</option>
                </select>
                <label for="email">Email</label>
                <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
                <label for="password">Password</label>
                <input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
            </fieldset>
        </form>
    </div>

And the Javascript code is as below:

$(function() {

            var fname = $("#first-name"), lname = $("#last-name"), email = $("#email"), password = $("#password");

            $("#dialog-form").dialog({
                autoOpen : false,
                height : 300,
                width : 350,
                modal : true,
                buttons : {
                    "Create an account" : function() {
                        $("#users tbody").append("<tr>" + "<td>" + (fname.find("option:selected").text()+' ').concat(lname.find("option:selected").text())+ "</td>" + "<td>" + email.val() + "</td>" + "<td>" + password.val() + "</td>" + "<td><a href='' class='edit'>Edit</a></td>" + "<td><span class='delete'><a href=''>Delete</a></span></td>" + "</tr>");
                        $(this).dialog("close");

                    },
                    Cancel : function() {
                        $(this).dialog("close");
                    }
                },
                close : function() {
                    allFields.val("").removeClass("ui-state-error");
                }
            });

              $('span.delete').live('click', function() {  
                $(this).closest('tr').find('td').fadeOut(1000, 
                    function(){ 
                        // alert($(this).text());
                        $(this).parents('tr:first').remove();                    
                    });    

                return false;
            });
            $("#create-user").button().click(function() {
                $("#dialog-form").dialog("open");
            });
        });

The add and delete actions are working now and I have created a http://jsfiddle.net/sangu0009/FvAuZ/ but I need to write edit action. Please help me with some solutions to how to do it. The work is more appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is something you can start with,

Change the Edit link to a span with class edit.

$('span.edit').on('click', function() {  

    $("#dialog-form").dialog({
        autoOpen : false,
        height : 300,
        width : 350,
        modal : true,
        buttons : {
            "Edit an account" : function() {

                name = $(this).closest('tr').find('td.custom-name').text().split(' ', 2);
                email = $(this).closest('tr').find('td:nth-child(2)').text();
                pass = $(this).closest('tr').find('td:nth-child(3)').text();
                var fname = name[0], lname = name[1];

                $("#first-name option:contains('" + name[0] + "')").attr('selected', 'selected');
                $("#last-name option:contains('" + name[1] + "')").attr('selected', 'selected');
                $("#email").text(email);
                $("#password").text(pass);

            },
            Cancel : function() {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        },
        close : function() {
            allFields.val("").removeClass("ui-state-error");
        }
    });

    return false;
});