Click to Edit

The click to edit pattern provides a way to offer inline editing of all or part of a record without a page refresh.

• This pattern starts with a UI in contact.jsp that shows the details of a contact. The div has a button that will get the editing UI for the contact from edit.jsp

<div hx-target="this" hx-swap="outerHTML">
    <div><label>First Name</label>: Joe</div>
    <div><label>Last Name</label>: Blow</div>
    <div><label>Email</label>: joe@blow.com</div>
    <button hx-get="edit.jsp?id=1" class="btn primary">
    Click To Edit
    </button>
</div>

• This returns a form that can be used to edit the contact

<form hx-post="save.jsp?id=1" hx-target="this" hx-swap="outerHTML">
  <div>
    <label>First Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="firstName" value="Joe">
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label>Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="lastName" value="Blow">
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label>Email Address</label>
    <input type="email" name="email" value="joe@blow.com">
  </div>
  <button class="btn">Submit</button>
  <button class="btn" hx-get="contact.jsp?id=1">Cancel</button>
</form>

• The form issues a POST back to save.jsp, which acts as a stand-in for a database update service. The page instead stores the values into a session object before redirecting back to contact.jsp to display the data.