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

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