Building a neat edit in place behavior

For the purposes of my next post, I built a neat little edit in place behavior and I thought it deserved its own post. It does a pretty good job at showing how easy it is to build a clean behavior using ASP.NET Ajax. It?s always good to go back to the basics? In this post, I?ll show you how the behavior works, but more importantly how I built it. The behavior is pretty similar to the in-place editing behavior Nikhil built a while ago (but it works against the latest Ajax framework). It attaches to any text input or text area. In the absence of JavaScript, nothing happens and the input is directly usable, which makes for a graceful degradation story. When JavaScript is enabled, the behavior hides the input and replaces it with a span that has...(read more) ...