jeditable on a label, how do I keep it from losing focus on click?

I'm building a simple script that allows a user to add telephone numbers dynamically. These are inputs paired with a labels which can all be edited on the fly. I'm using jeditable for the labels but then I've come across a small problem, if a user tries to click inside the input box of the label the browser will detect a click on the label and place the focus on the input element of the label's "for" attribute.

I tried the following:

$(selector).find('input').live('focus', function(){
    $(selector).click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault;
        return false;
    });
}).live('blur', function(){
    //somehow reattach the behaviour here?
});

Essentially "selector" holds the selector for my jeditable label. I find the input inside of it and on focus I disabled the default behaviour of the label. This keeps the label from changing the focus. However, I do not know how to undo this. I supposed I could toggle a boolean flag and then call seperate method that would prevent the default but I have a feeling that there must be a much cleaner way to do this, any suggestions?

Solution

An alternative is to remove the for attribute when the label is being edited, and then add that attribute back after the editing.

// store the "for" attr in the element's data
$('label').each(function() {
    $(this).data('for', $(this).attr('for'));
});

$('label').editable('...', {
    ...
    onreset: function() {
        var $label = $(this).parent();
        $label.attr('for', $label.data('for'));
    }
}).click(function() {
    $(this).removeAttr('for');
});

See it in action: http://jsfiddle.net/G8QuA/.