Inline Editing
Let people change a single value in place instead of opening a whole edit screen.
What it adds
Click-to-edit fields in lists, tables, and detail views, with keyboard commit, validation, and rollback.
What your agent is told to do
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What your agent is told to do
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Pick the fields worth editing inline: short, single-value, low-risk. Long text, relationships, and anything with side effects belong in a real form.
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Make the editable region obviously interactive before it is clicked, and require a deliberate gesture to enter edit mode.
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Support Enter to commit, Escape to cancel, and Tab to commit and move to the next field. Keyboard-only editing must be complete.
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Keep the original value until the save succeeds, and restore it visibly with an explanation if it fails.
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Do NOT enter edit mode on a stray click during text selection or row navigation. An accidental edit mode that eats a keystroke is worse than a slower flow.
Edge cases it handles
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Edge cases it handles
7- A failed save must restore the previous value and say why, not leave the invalid input sitting there looking saved.
- If another user changed the value while this one was editing, say so and let them choose. Do not silently overwrite.
- Losing permission mid-edit must exit edit mode with an explanation, not fail confusingly on submit.
- Screen readers need the mode change announced and the field labelled — an unlabelled input appearing in a table cell is invisible.
- The editor must not resize the row or shift the table layout when it opens.
- Clicking outside should commit or cancel, but pick one and be consistent across the app.
- Rapid edits to several fields must not race each other into an inconsistent record.
Definition of done
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Definition of done
9- Editable fields are visually identifiable before interaction.
- Enter commits, Escape cancels, and Tab commits and advances.
- A failed save restores the original value and explains the failure.
- Concurrent edits by another user are detected and surfaced rather than overwritten.
- Entering and leaving edit mode is announced to assistive technology.
- Edit mode is never triggered by text selection or row navigation.
- Row height and column widths do not shift when an editor opens.
- The feature matches the existing design system.
- No existing functionality is broken.
Related features
Voice Dictation
Voice Dictation
Put a microphone in text fields so people can speak their input instead of typing it.
What it does
A dictation control on the app's longer text inputs that transcribes speech into the field as the user talks.
How it works
- 1 Add the control to the fields where typing is genuinely tedious: long descriptions, notes, comments, and message bodies. A microphone on a postcode field is clutter.
- 2 Show interim results in the field as they arrive, visually distinct from committed text, so the speaker can see it is working and correct course before they finish.
- 3 Reuse the app's existing Voice Transcription for the server-side path so one recognition configuration and one set of language settings serve both dictation and recorded audio.
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Add this feature to my app:
https://addthisfeature.com/x/voice-dictation
Help Text Pattern
Help Text Pattern
Put field guidance in one predictable place, phrased the same way every time.
What it does
A consistent treatment for the short explanatory text that sits with a field and its control.
How it works
- 1 Collect the guidance the app currently scatters across placeholders, tooltips, asterisked footnotes, and modal help, and move it into one slot beneath the field.
- 2 Keep guidance that is required to complete the field permanently visible. A format rule hidden behind a hover target is not available to a touch user or a keyboard user.
- 3 Write help as the rule the user needs before typing — the accepted format, the consequence of the choice — not as a restatement of the label.
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Add this feature to my app:
https://addthisfeature.com/x/help-text-pattern
Form Section Pattern
Form Section Pattern
Break long forms into labelled sections people can scan instead of read.
What it does
A section pattern grouping related fields under a heading, a description, and its own actions.
How it works
- 1 Find the forms that have grown past a screenful — settings, profiles, checkout, configuration — and group their fields by the question each group answers, not by the table the columns come from.
- 2 Give each section a heading in the document's heading order and an optional one-line description, so screen reader and keyboard users can jump between sections.
- 3 Allow at most one level of nesting. A section inside a section inside a tab gives the user no orientation and pushes the fields into a narrow gutter.
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Add this feature to my app:
https://addthisfeature.com/x/form-section-pattern
How it works
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Copy the link
Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.
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Give it to your AI
Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.
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It inspects, then implements
Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.
Works with your stack
These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.
Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.