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invoke cancel on jeditable


is there a way to invoke "cancel" on a jeditable area from an external call? (instead of clicking cancel) - basically to close the textarea.


Solution

  • It looks like jeditable exposes a method for "cancel" directly on the DOM element that was used to initialize the editable section.

    For example:

    // A paragraph with jeditable initialized like this:
    $('p#editable').editable();
    
    // Could be canceled with:
    $('p#editable')[0].reset();
    

    Another option would be to trigger the "click" event on the cancel button itself. In order to do this, we can specify specific html for the cancel button.

    $('p#editable').editable({
        cancel: '<button class="cancel_button">cancel</button>'
    });
    
    // And to cancel:
    $('p#editable').find('.cancel_button').click();