Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: A feature coming in MSIE

Author:	Rob Relyea
Posted:	1/10/2000; 8:50:23 PM
Topic:	A feature coming in MSIE
Msg #:	14321 (In response to 14308)
Prev/Next:	14320 / 14322

Please send feedback about the contenteditable feature to me at rrelyea@microsoft.com. We're excited by the capability this new element property will give application and page authors.

A few things about the feature: 1) once you set this property on an element (declaratively or through script), the contents of the element will be turned into edit mode. try this with IE 5.5: this is

editable text

2) this property has a side effect of making the element rectangular (a span will no longer be able to wrap across lines)

3) for several applications, people will use this property to allow a web page to have a better editor than a . in order to submit the text in a contentEditable element to the server, you could do something like this: <div id=d1 contentEditable=true>edit <b>this</b> text</div> <form id=f1 action=somepage.asp onsubmit=submitHTMLSource()> <input type=hidden name=htmlSource> <input type=submit> </form> <script> function submitHTMLSource() { f1.htmlSource.value = d1.innerHTML; } </script><p> As far as the audio feedback, yes it is annoying. It is a bug that we shipped in the beta. It will be fixed before the next beta.<p> Thanks, Rob<p> Rob Relyea Program Manager, Internet Explorer <br><br><hr><b>There are responses to this message:</b><ul><li> <a href="msg014322.html">Re: A feature coming in MSIE</a>, Dave Winer, 1/10/2000; 9:18:01 PM<p></ul> <br><br><hr>This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:54:02 PM.<br><br>© Copyright 1998-2001 <a href="http://www.userland.com/">UserLand Software</a>, Inc. </blockquote></blockquote> </body> </html>