Question

I need to implement a excel like interface, but as a webapp. It is not really excel like, but this is the must appropriate term to describe it.

Basically it is about a form with 20 cells(1 row with 20 inputs) and the working scenario is this: when the user clicks on a cell, that input box becomes a textarea and the user enters the desired text in it. On the bottom right side of the text area I need a button which save the textarea content through ajax.

Do you have any idea, if this type of functionality is offered (even partially), by any of the jQuery plugins?

Answer 1

I would check out something like:

http://www.arashkarimzadeh.com/jquery/7-editable-jquery-plugin.html

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/uiTableEdit

http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable

There are more too, just google jQuery editable or edit in place, quite a few options.