Question

I’m looking for existing solutions for building dynamic forms with Django. What I want to get is a form that looks just like a table, but when any of its cells are clicked, textbox is dynamically displayed instead of the text and then user can edit the value.

I know that’s quite an abstract description but I’d really appreciate everything related: if that library/framework will reload absolutely all table to switch it from completely read-only to completely editable, that’s also fine.

I’m implementing a proof of concept web application, so I’d like to avoid spending time for implementing it from scratch.

The description is unclear, I believe. Here it is:

1. There’s a list of users for instance. Just a simple table. Administrator clicks one of these users and profile is displayed:

   Login: jsmith

   Real Name: John Smith

   Group: Users

2. Then administrator double-clicks “John Smith” and text box is loaded instead of text:

   Login: jsmith

   Real Name: [ John Smith ]

   Group: Users

   [Save] [Cancel]

3. Administrator can now modify jsmith’s real name. If Save is clicked, data is sent to server. If Cancel is clicked, data is reverted and profile is as on p.1

Update: what I want is what we have here on stackoverflow.com – write a comment (not answer) and post it. Then you can edit it without reloading the page. That’s what I’ve been talking about before. So, I need something of that kind but extendable and Django-injectable

Answer 1

Sounds like what you want is a Javascript Data Grid widget. The Ext JS toolkit has a nice example, something like this:

http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.0/examples/grid/cell-editing.html

Now note this has nothing to do with Django, these things can be deployed by any web server or application server.

Of course implementing this on a Django server just means making sure your server is serving the Javascript, and that you’ve written any Ajax calls correctly. But thats the next step.