# Editor example CardView - inline editing

As well as operating with the full row editing of Editor, CardView also supports Editor's inline editing mode. To active inline editing, as usual you should use the `inline()` method passing in the target element to be edited.

The three built in CardView templates will automatically resolve to the field to be edited if you pass in the element where the data for the cell is displayed. In this example, the default `dlList` template is used by CardView, and the `dd`, which is used for the data, is used in the selector for the click event that will trigger the inline editing in the card.

| First name | Last name | Position | Office | Start date | Salary
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- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Ajax
- Server-side script

The JavaScript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

`const editor = new DataTable.Editor({ ajax: '../php/staff.php', fields: [ { label: 'First name:', name: 'first_name' }, { label: 'Last name:', name: 'last_name' }, { label: 'Position:', name: 'position' }, { label: 'Office:', name: 'office' }, { label: 'Extension:', name: 'extn' }, { label: 'Start date:', name: 'start_date', type: 'datetime' }, { label: 'Salary:', name: 'salary' } ], table: '#example' }); const table = new DataTable('#example', { ajax: '../php/staff.php', cardView: { columns: ':not(:first-child)' }, columns: [ { data: null, orderable: false, render: DataTable.render.select() }, { data: 'first_name' }, { data: 'last_name' }, { data: 'position' }, { data: 'office' }, { data: 'start_date' }, { data: 'salary', render: DataTable.render.number(null, null, 0, '$') } ], layout: { topStart: { buttons: [ { extend: 'create', editor: editor }, { extend: 'edit', editor: editor }, { extend: 'remove', editor: editor }, 'spacer', 'cardView', 'tableView' ] } }, order: [[1, 'asc']], select: { style: 'os', selector: 'td:first-child' } }); // Activate an inline edit on click of a table cell table.on('click', 'tbody td:not(:first-child)', function (e) { editor.inline(this); }); // Inline editing in CardView DataTable.Dom.s('div.dt-container').on('click', 'div.dtcv-card dd', function (e) { editor.inline(this); });`

In addition to the above code, the following JavaScript library files are loaded for use in this example:

The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:

This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:

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The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:

This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.

The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.