diff --git a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
index 3ccd331cc48..a98376ae30f 100644
--- a/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
+++ b/addons/website/static/src/js/website.editor.js
@@ -192,11 +192,6 @@
             this.$('#website-top-edit').show();
             $('.css_non_editable_mode_hidden').removeClass("css_non_editable_mode_hidden");
 
-            // this.$buttons.cancel.add(this.$buttons.snippet).prop('disabled', false)
-            //     .add(this.$buttons.save)
-            //     .parent().show();
-            //
-            // TODO: span edition changing edition state (save button)
             var $editables = $('[data-oe-model]')
                     .not('link, script')
                     // FIXME: propagation should make "meta" blocks non-editable in the first place...
diff --git a/addons/website/view.py b/addons/website/view.py
index d4aae3b2e9a..d6671b5c499 100644
--- a/addons/website/view.py
+++ b/addons/website/view.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-from lxml import etree
+from lxml import etree, html
 from openerp.osv import osv, fields
 
 
@@ -49,3 +49,20 @@ class view(osv.osv):
             if call_view not in stack_result:
                 result += self._views_get(cr, uid, call_view, options=options, context=context, stack_result=result)
         return result
+
+    def save(self, cr, uid, model, res_id, field, value, xpath=None, context=None):
+        """ Update the content of a field
+
+        :param str model:
+        :param int res_id:
+        :param str xpath: valid xpath to the tag to replace
+        """
+        model_obj = self.pool.get(model)
+        if xpath:
+            origin = model_obj.read(cr, uid, [res_id], [field], context=context)[0][field]
+            origin_tree = etree.fromstring(origin.encode('utf-8'))
+            zone = origin_tree.xpath(xpath)[0]
+            zone.getparent().replace(zone, html.fromstring(value))
+            value = etree.tostring(origin_tree, encoding='utf-8')
+
+        model_obj.write(cr, uid, res_id, {field: value}, context=context)