Hi Colin,

I have another approach for inline editing in visualforce page. I will post the example code for Contact object. It will work with custom objects as well.

Visualforce page

<apex:page sidebar="false" controller="InlineController"> 
    
  <!--  <apex:sectionHeader title="Edit Employees" subtitle="{!$User.FirstName} {!$User.LastName}"/>-->
    <p/>
    
    <apex:pageMessages />
    <apex:form >    
    
    <apex:actionFunction name="saveEdit" action="{!saveEdit}"/>
    
 
    
    <apex:pageBlock >
    <apex:outputPanel id="contactList">
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th style="width:40px"> </th>
            <th style="width:40px"> </th>
            <th style="width:90px">Last Name</th>
            <th style="width:90px">Email</th>
            <th>Mailing Country</th>
        </tr>
        <apex:repeat value="{!employees}" var="e">
        <tr style="height:20px">
            <apex:outputPanel id="editRow" layout="none" rendered="{!e.Id == editContact.Id}">
                <td><apex:commandLink action="{!cancelEdit}" rerender="contactList">Cancel</apex:commandLink></td>
                <td><apex:commandLink action="{!saveEdit}" rerender="contactList">Save</apex:commandLink></td>
                <td><apex:inputField rendered="{!e.Id == editContact.Id}" value="{!editContact.LastName}"/></td>
                <td><apex:inputField rendered="{!e.Id == editContact.Id}" value="{!editContact.email}"/></td>
             <td><apex:inputField rendered="{!e.Id == editContact.Id}" onkeypress="if (event.keyCode == 13) saveEdit()" value="{!editContact.MailingCountry}"/></td>
            </apex:outputPanel>
            <apex:outputPanel id="viewRow" layout="none" rendered="{!e.Id != editContact.Id}">
                <td>
                    <apex:commandLink action="{!del}" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this Employee?')">Del
                        <apex:param name="delid" value="{!e.Id}"/>
                    </apex:commandLink>
                    
                </td>
                <td>
                    <apex:commandLink action="{!editcon}" rerender="employeeList">Edit <apex:param name="editid" value="{!e.id}"/>
                    </apex:commandLink>
                </td>
                <td>{!e.LastName}</td>
                <td>{!e.email}</td>
                <td>{!e.MailingCountry}</td>
            </apex:outputPanel>
        </tr>
        </apex:repeat>
    </table>
    </apex:outputPanel>
    </apex:pageBlock>

    </apex:form>
    
</apex:page>

controller

public class InlineController {


    public InlineController(ApexPages.StandardController controller) {
    
    }

   public Contact newContact { get; set; }
    
    public Contact editContact { get; set; }

    public InlineController () {
        newContact = new Contact();
    }
    
    public Contact[] getEmployees() {
        return [Select c.MailingCountry, c.LastName, c.Id, c.Email From Contact c];
    }
    
    public String getParam(String name) {
        return ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get(name);   
    }
    
        
    public PageReference del() {
        try {
            String delid = getParam('delid');
            Contact employee = [SELECT Id FROM Contact WHERE ID=:delid];
            DELETE employee;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            ApexPages.addMessages(e);
        }
        return null;
    }
    
    public PageReference editcon() {
        String editid = getParam('editid');
        editContact = [SELECT Name, LastName, email,MailingCountry FROM Contact WHERE id=:editid];
        return null;
    }
    
    public PageReference cancelEdit() {
   // System.Debug('GETURL ::: '+ApexPages.currentPage().getUrl());
        editContact = null;
        return null;
    }
    
    public PageReference saveEdit() {
        try {
            UPDATE editContact;
            editContact = null;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            ApexPages.addMessages(e);
        }
        return null;
    }

}

Try with this.

No more unfortunate for inline editing on visualforce pages :smileyhappy:

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