JEditable, how to handle a JSON response?

Question

Right now, the server response I\'m working with sends back a JSON response like this:

{\"status\":1}

After saving, jeditable places the actual

Answer 1

There's a simple way of doing this by using the callback. .editable() converts any response to a string, so the response has to be converted to a JSON variable. The values can then be retrieved and then written using a '.text()' method. Check the code:

$("#myField").editable("http://www.example.com/save.php", { 
    submit    : 'Save',
    cancel    : 'Cancel',
    onblur    : "ignore",
    name      : "sentText",
    callback : function(value, settings) {
        var json = $.parseJSON(value);
        $("#myField").text(json.sentText);
    }
});