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    copied!<p>I am trying to change the table cell from 'span' type to 'input' on click and then back to 'span' on blur but it isn't working as given in here:</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6445223/convert-table-cells-to-text-boxes-with-jquery">Convert table cells to text-boxes with JQuery</a></p> <p>here is the javascript code:</p> <pre><code> &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $(document).ready(function() { $('#assets').click(function () { $('tr td:nth-child(3)').each(function () { var html = $(this).html(); var input = $('&lt;input type="text" /&gt;'); input.val(html); $(this).html(input); }); }); }); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>and here is the document body</p> <pre><code>&lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="content"&gt; &lt;table id="assets"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="asset_name"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_value"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ast1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_name"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_value"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Loc-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="asset_name"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_value"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ast2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_name"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="asset_value"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Loc-2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;​ &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; </code></pre> <p>using jQuery 1.7.2</p> <p>What's wrong here ? Please help !</p> <p>Thanks!!</p> <p>Update: only need to change the cells with class='asset_value' and only one cell at a time not all. Also, it should change back to span on blur..</p>
 

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