trendoman wrote: You can keep it manual Saving without reloading of the page won't erase inputs, isn't this what you are looking for?

You could be right, it might work better/smoother. I will try to implement ajax in a simplified version of my current template to find out.

Does that mean I no longer use inline editing at all, but just regular input fields, only ajaxified? Or does ajax play with the on-page editing functionality?

If you know of some similar examples in the forum, I'd be interested to study those.