Mika Tuupola

In the heels of autogrow textarea comes next custom input for Jeditable. This time we will use markItUp! universal markup editor by Jay Salvat.

If you are not familiar with Jeditable custom inputs read the introduction. Also see autogrow and timepicker tutorials.

If you are just looking for the code download it here.

Creating custom input

Throughout the tutorial we will be using following code to trigger Jeditable. Note variable called markitupHTML. It holds configuration of used markItUp! tagset. In this example I use slightly modified HTML tagset. For more information on tagsets see markItUp! documentation.

$(".edit").editable("http://www.example.com/save.php", { 
    type      : "markitup",
    submit    : 'OK',
    cancel    : 'Cancel',
    tooltip   : "Click to edit...",
    onblur    : "ignore",
    markitup  : markitupHTML
});

Again we start by adding custom input type called markitup.

$.editable.addInputType('markitup', {
});

Right now code does not do much anything. It only creates the buttons and hidden input. Click text below to see it in action.

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Add textarea element

Next we add texarea element. Unlike in previous tutorials we do not copy and paste code from default textarea element. Instead we use a shortcut:

$.editable.addInputType('markitup', {
    element : $.editable.types.textarea.element
});

Now normal textarea is added. Click text below to see how it works.

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Attach markItUp! to textarea

We wanted to see pretty textarea with toolbar. First we search textarea input inside Jeditable form. This is done with $(‘textarea’, this) selector. Then we attach markItUp! to it.

$.editable.addInputType('markitup', {
    element : $.editable.types.textarea.element,
    plugin  : function(settings, original) {
        $('textarea', this).markItUp(settings.markitup);
    }
});

Now you can edit code with tag editor. Click text below to test yourself.

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And we are done. This illustrates how easy it is to customize Jeditable with other plugins. Only six lines of code can create pretty inline tag editor. There is also separate Textile demo. As always, all suggestions and feedback are welcome.