# In\_place\_editor question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editor-question/127404>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 28, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editor-question/127404 "2008-01-28T22:54:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sp00nyg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@sp00nyg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sp00nyg)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/in-place-editor-question/127404/1 "2008-01-28T22:54:49Z")

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Is there a way to force the in\_place\_editor plugin to only use  
external\_control? I’m using in\_place\_editor to allow my users to edit  
their tags on an object, so when the tags are not being edited, I want  
them to be links. Unfortunately, even if I define an  
external\_control, the field is “click to edit” making my tag links  
unusable. The external control works as well.

Before I play some games with javascript to swap things around, I  
wanted to see if there was a way using the standard plugin to do what  
I want.