I really don't know how to describe it, but if you understood it and had experience on that field, may be you can help me with something 'Open Source' and 'Ready-made'.

I want to create something like a box 'or widget', where you can change its content by hitting some buttons on the top of the box. (Hey the box is on a web page and this should use Ajax and Javascript).

I have tried some ready scritps, but I found them limited and they drive me crazy, JS frameworks also don't seems to offer such solution. Any body have any idea on that field?

I really don't know how to describe it, but if you understood it and had experience on that field, may be you can help me with something 'Open Source' and 'Ready-made'.

I want to create something like a box 'or widget', where you can change its content by hitting some buttons on the top of the box. (Hey the box is on a web page and this should use Ajax and Javascript).

I have tried some ready scritps, but I found them limited and they drive me crazy, JS frameworks also don't seems to offer such solution. Any body have any idea on that field?

• javascript
• ajax
• widget

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• Expand your requirements a bit more. Is this Box and buttons to be generated dynamically? What should happen when a button is pressed what is the box updated with? – James Hughes Commented Nov 28, 2008 at 15:58
• Are you looking for a dialog box type of thing? – strager Commented Nov 28, 2008 at 17:52

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Just because the box is on a Web page doesn't mean it should use AJAX, Omar. Have you thought about using a third-party solution like ClearSpring or WidgetBox? If you need to put your widget onto Myspace, you'll want one of these.

That said, I've taken a couple of JavaScript-only runs at this problem; see Twitterati and Put Your Digg In A Box for examples, and my Global Widget Summit presentation for explanations.

Have you tried Jquery?

Visit www.jquery.

Some example can be found at http://www.openjs./scripts/events/keyboard_shortcuts/

Also please check the In-place editing example at http://www.appelsiini/projects/jeditable http://docs.jquery./Tutorials:Edit_in_Place_with_Ajax