# Edit a cell in TableView

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/edit-a-cell-in-tableview/25363>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, webapps\
**Created:** [June 17, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/edit-a-cell-in-tableview/25363 "2019-06-17T11:11:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/edit-a-cell-in-tableview/25363/7 "2019-06-17T11:38:47Z")

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> [@pfitzseb](#):
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> It would be fairly trivial to do this for some tables, probably, but I’d really like to avoid special casing e.g. DataFrames (and depending on it, of course).

Yea, keep it lean.

> [@pfitzseb](#):
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> One thing we could also do is add a `callback` kwarg to `showtable` , which has the edited cell and the new value as its arguments. That would put the burden of figuring out how to mutate the table on you though 🙂

Sounds like a reasonable solution… At the end of the day isn’t it a text dialog?

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