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Re: new line in a contentEditable div

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"Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> wrote on 03 okt 2014 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> Evertjan. wrote:
> 
>> Content-editable is not designed to change anything other 
>> than plain text-nodes.
> 
> No.  The contentEditable as well as designmode attribute have been
> invented to allow so-called rich-text editing[1].  Otherwise a textarea
> would be sufficient.
> 
> [1] <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla>

Read again:

> "Rich-text editing is initialized by setting the designMode property of
> a document to "On", such as the document inside an iframe. Once
> designMode has been set to "On", the document becomes a rich-text
> editing area and the user can type into it as if it were a textarea. The
> most basic keyboard commands such as copy and paste are available, all
> others need to be implemented by the website. 
> 
> Similarly, setting contentEditable to "true" allows you to make
> individual elements of a document editable." 

So "contentEditable" is only for the content of "individual elements",
and IMHO that is just plain text.

Anyway, 
you are just argumenting by authority,
if something is designed to fly,
does not mean it actually can fly.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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new line in a contentEditable div Julien Arlandis <julien.arlandis@laposte.net> - 2014-10-03 11:33 +0000
  Re: new line in a contentEditable div JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-10-03 19:46 +0700
    Re: new line in a contentEditable div Julien Arlandis <julien.arlandis@laposte.net> - 2014-10-03 13:13 +0000
      Re: new line in a contentEditable div JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-10-04 09:29 +0700
        Re: new line in a contentEditable div Julien Arlandis <julien.arlandis@laposte.net> - 2014-10-04 06:09 +0000
          Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-04 08:47 +0200
          Re: new line in a contentEditable div JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2014-10-04 21:34 +0700
            Re: new line in a contentEditable div Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-22 20:09 +0200
  Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-03 15:00 +0200
    Re: new line in a contentEditable div Julien Arlandis <julien.arlandis@laposte.net> - 2014-10-03 13:18 +0000
    Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-03 16:23 +0200
      Re: new line in a contentEditable div Julien Arlandis <julien.arlandis@laposte.net> - 2014-10-03 15:16 +0000
        Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-03 18:28 +0200
          Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-10-03 18:54 +0200
            Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-03 19:07 +0200
              Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-10-03 19:32 +0200
  Re: new line in a contentEditable div "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-10-03 16:21 +0300

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