If you don't want forms, use inputs with no border or background except when :active. Why does a regular form not work for a profile? Salesforce.com does a re

If you don't want forms, use inputs with no border or background except when :active. Why does a regular form not work for a profile? Salesforce.com does a reasonable job of inline editing as they turn ALL fields on the form editable. So the annoyance of not being able to select text to type over it only happens once.