Inline editing with custom elements in Rails | Rails Designer

14-Nov-2025 605
Learn how to build an inline editing feature using custom elements in Rails. A clean, framework-agnostic approach to editable content with just HTML and JavaScript.Yes! 🤯 It is made possible using a custom element: editable-content. It is part of a little experimentation phase of custom elements I am currently in. In this article I want to show how you can create such a custom element. As always the code can be found here.
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