Forms editor wishlist item!

[Henrik G.]

It would be of great benefit if we could support a simple form of plain-text content-editable in the forms editor.

Imagine clicking in the form field and writing the intended text, in addition to be able to write it in a standard text box.

Both are important since not all browsers support contenteditable.

[Denis Dervisevic (denis.d)]

An alternative for all browser could be using the flickr model with javascript/jquery. You do an onclick on the output needed, a regular div. When it is clicked you replace with with a input field with the data pre-entered and a submit button. Then save it asynchronously. You could make it more obvious by having a highlight on the field on mouse over.

Food for thought.

[Johan Gustafsson (a09johgu)]

Those working on the new forms editor have been informed and will take this into consideration.

[Henrik G. (henrik-gustavsson)]

Does not have to be html5 contenteditable, but it should be easy to port it to contenteditabel once this functionality is
more standardized in browsers.

My personalized view on this is that we should opt for standards before opting for external api-s.

I view jquery et. al. as interrim solutions until there is a standardized way to achieve such functionality without external dependencies.