Jeditable

You might also want to check custom inputs demo.

Normal textarea

http://rediscover911.com/who-did-911/retwre

Inlined select

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Textile renderer

Different events

Click me if you dare! or maybe you should doubleclick instead? Really lazy people can just mouseover me...