Toggling of Edit links in comments not working

[teamwebgalli]

Toggling of "edit" link in comments is not working when a comment is rendered using
elgg_view_entity($comment)

Version - 1.9

[Srokap]

What do you mean by toggling? That sounds like duplicate of #6666

[teamwebgalli]

Toggling means - showing the inline edit form.
Not a duplicate.

The error is due to the selector
https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/blob/master/js/lib/comments.js#L104

Comments rendered via elgg_view_entity($comment) are not wrapped with in ".elgg-item-object-comment"

[Srokap]

The class is added by elgg_list_entities in default list view. I assume, you just want it to work on standalone item?

[teamwebgalli]

Yes, It needs to be working even on a standalone item.

The links are supposed to work when ever they are shown, right? But the js selector makes it work only, if it is being rendered by the elgg_list_entities().

[jdalsem]

The inline comment form is a reusable form that is not available on a single comment. The form is part of the listing of the comments and not part of the object view. In core Elgg there are no uses of a single elgg_view_entity($comment). Also there is nothing broken, as the edit link with bring you to a edit form.

If you need the inline form in your own plugin, you can do (something like) the following:

echo "<div class='elgg-comments'>";
echo elgg_list_entities(array("guids" => array($your_comment_guid)));
echo elgg_view_form('comment/save', array(), $vars);
echo "</div>";