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 iseditable text2) 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