Question

One of the Wish List items for Plugins.EditTablePlugin is to be able to specify putting the "Edit" button at the top.

One of my users just requested this today.

Has anyone come up with a workaround, probably in HTML forms and/or JavaScript, to implement this?

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 26 Feb 2008

Answer

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This is a script that uses BehaviourContrib (installed by default). It assumes you know the name of the form (edittable1).

<script type="text/javascript">
var rules = {
   '.editTableEditImageButton' : function(el) {
      var clone = el.cloneNode(false);
      var ettablenrEl = document.forms.edittable1.ettablenr;
      ettablenrEl.parentNode.insertBefore(clone, ettablenrEl);
      clone.style.marginBottom = '2px';
      el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
   }
};
Behaviour.register(rules);
</script>

-- ArthurClemens - 26 Feb 2008

That works great (when we have one table). Of course, if we have two tables, it puts two buttons at the top of edittable1.

I thought I'd re-open this while I flail around on the code... perhaps someone with more JavaScript experience will te pity on me and help me to extend this script to handle more than one table on a page.

-- VickiBrown - 13 Oct 2008

This can be a workaround with no need for javascript. But for some causes I can not figure out in this TWiki installation the edition in one table modifies de button on the other. On my local intranet it works well with TWiki-4.2.0.

%EDITTABLE{  }% 
| %EDITCELL{ "editbutton, 1, Edit this table" }% ||
| *Header1* | *Header 2* | 
| Blah, blah | blah, blah, blah |
| Blah, blah | blah, blah, blah |


%EDITTABLE{  }% 
| %EDITCELL{ "editbutton, 1, Edit this other table" }% ||
| *Header 3* | *Header 4* | 
| Blah, blah | blah, blah, blah |
| Blah, blah | blah, blah, blah |

-- EnriqueCadalso - 14 Oct 2008

Fixed

-- ArthurClemens - 02 Nov 2008

This is now in twiki.org's SVN, TWikibug:Item6062. Thanks ArthurClemens.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Nov 2008