Notes

  • This widget can not be applied to the original plugin and requires jQuery 1.7+ and a browser that supports contenteditable attributes (almost all modern browsers).
  • Important: In Internet Explorer, please wrap the cell content with a DIV or SPAN as it is not possible to make table cells directly contenteditable. Wrapping the content in the markup is much more efficient than using javascript to do it for you (especially in IE).
  • Updated v2.13.2, because of the limitation in IE, if a table cell contains any DIV or SPAN immediately inside the cell, it will be targeted instead of the table cell itself and made content editable. So, if you don't care about IE support, there is no need to include the extra markup.
  • In some browsers, additional CSS is needed to highlight a focused editable table cell. See the CSS block below.
  • Pressing escape while editing will cancel any changes.
  • In the demo below, click in any of the first three columns to edit the content, except for the cell containing "Peter".
  • To prevent a table cell from becoming editable, add the class name "no-edit" to the cell. Set by the editable_noEdit option.
  • Edited content will be accepted in the following circumstances:
    • Pressing enter when the editable_enterToAccept option is true.
    • Clicking outside of the current editable content.
    • Moving the mouse outside of the current tbody. This is done because if the content editable is still active when the user clicks on the header to sort the column, all sorts of bad things happen.
  • Edited content will not be accepted in the following circumstances:
    • Pressing Escape within the editable content.

Options

Editable widget widget default options (added inside of tablesorter widgetOptions)

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OptionDescription
Contains an array (or range string) of columns numbers you want to have editable content (zero-based index).
  • In tablesorter core v2.14.2, this widget was updated to allow passing a range string in this option, i.e. "0-2" instead of [0,1,2].
  • contenteditable="true" is added to cells within these columns.
Default value: [] (empty array)
Makes the user press enter to accept the content within the editable table cell

if false, clicking outside the cell will accept the content.

Default value: true
If true, the column will resort (only if already sorted) after the content has been changed.

Default value: false
Class name on table cells to search for that are not to become editable. .

The search is only done within the columns set by the editable_columns option.

Default value: 'no-edit'
Event fired after the table content has been edited

Default value: 'editComplete'

Demo

First Name Last Name Age Total Discount Date
Peter
Parker
28
 $9.99 20% Jul 6, 2006 8:14 AM
John
Hood
33
 $19.99 25% Dec 10, 2002 5:14 AM
Clark
Kent
18
 $15.89 44% Jan 12, 2003 11:14 AM
Bruce
Almighty
45
 $153.19 44% Jan 18, 2001 9:12 AM
Bruce
Evans
22
 $13.19 11% Jan 18, 2007 9:12 AM

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