One click edit

Thank you for you feedback.

I can't imagine many use cases for clicking on a text field, if it isn't for editing. Perhaps, if you want to copy the text to paste it somewhere else; but even in this case, you could copy the text from the in-place-editor.

I see your point here. A single click could work fine for normal text fields. The problem is a different case, e.g. a text field that is part of a list view, that is completely wrapped with a link. That could for example a intro text / summary for an article teaser list. When being logged in it would not be possible anymore to browse through the site. It's would be highly theme dependent.

This module is looking great, but I am asking myself the same question in terms of usability: in a collaborative website, how would the user know that he needs to double cick on the field?

I also think @jcmartinez suggeston makes sense. Regarding your comment on "what if it is a link"? Jira handles it in the following way: if you click on the link, then you are following the link as you would expect. But if you click outside the link but still on that link's div, then you enter edition mode.

Alternatively, maybe a "pencil" icon when you hover a div could allow you to trigger quick edit when clicking on the pencil. What do you think?

In the end, if anyone is interested, I created a different module which addresses this differently, not relying on contextual links Simpler Quickedit

With that module, you can select how you wish to quickedit that specific field: a simple click, or an edit button automatically added to your field.