Inline form editing on client side
- by bykasif
I see some web sites use dynamic forms(I am not sure about how to call them!) to edit a group of data. For example: there is a group of data such as name, last name, city, country.etc. when user clicks on EDIT button, instead of doing postback, a form, consisisting of 2 textboxes + 2 comboboxes, dynamically opens to edit,And then when you click on Save button, edit form disappears, and all data updates..
Now, I know what happens over here is using Ajax for server calls and some javascript for dom manipulation.. I even found some jquery plugins for textbox editing.. However, I could not found anything for full implementation of form fields. Therefore I have implemented it on asp.net by jquery ajax calls and dom manipulation manually. here is my process:
1) when Edit button clicked: Make a ajax call to server to retrieve necessary formedit.aspx
2) it returns editable form fields with values assigned.
3) when Save button clicked: make ajax call to server to retrieve formupdateprocess.aspx page. it basically do the database updates and then return necessary DOM snipplet (...) to insert current page..
well it works but MY PROBLEM, is performance.. Result seems slower than samples I see in other sites.:((
IS there anything that I dont know? a better way to implement this??
