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Hi,
I need to write a table that allows in-place editing of the content of
a cell whenever a mouse button is pressed inside the cell like Google
Spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com. However, the
"contentEditabl e" property only works with IE, not Firefox. Is there
any workaround? Google people was able to make their spreadsheets work
with Firefox, so I believe that there must be a resolution.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Tung Chau

Sep 11 '06 #1
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tu********@yaho o.com wrote:

I need to write a table that allows in-place editing of the content of
a cell whenever a mouse button is pressed inside the cell like Google
Spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com. However, the
"contentEditabl e" property only works with IE, not Firefox. Is there
any workaround? Google people was able to make their spreadsheets work
with Firefox, so I believe that there must be a resolution.
contentEditable applied to an element works in IE 5.5 and later and with
Opera 9.
IE 5 and later and Mozilla and Opera 9 however support editable iframes
where you set designMode on the iframe document to 'on':
<http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html>
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Sep 11 '06 #2
tu********@yaho o.com wrote:
Hi,
I need to write a table that allows in-place editing of the content of
a cell whenever a mouse button is pressed inside the cell like Google
Spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com. However, the
"contentEditabl e" property only works with IE, not Firefox. Is there
any workaround? Google people was able to make their spreadsheets work
with Firefox, so I believe that there must be a resolution.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Tung Chau
How powerful does the editing need to be? Do you need rich text
support? If not, you could display a hidden <inputor <textareain
the cell when the cell is active, and replace the text contents of the
cell with the value of the <inputor <textareawhen it loses focus.

Jeremy
Sep 11 '06 #3

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