chrome supports the isContentEditable property (lists it in the "Inspect Element"), but reports false for INPUT, FORM - actually, everything.

too me, for example, seems that INPUT, non-readonly, should be true.

does anybody know what's going on?

chrome supports the isContentEditable property (lists it in the "Inspect Element"), but reports false for INPUT, FORM - actually, everything.

too me, for example, seems that INPUT, non-readonly, should be true.

does anybody know what's going on?

• javascript
• html
• dom

• What is isContentEditable? – Alex Commented Sep 21, 2011 at 9:44

2 Answers 2

isContentEditable doesn't have anything to do with forms and input boxes. It was designed to be a way to flag inline editable html content.

You can see a working example here: http://www.navioo./javascript/dhtml/isContentEditable_Example_4513.html

You can read about it

here: http://www.w3/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/editing.html

or: http://blog.whatwg/the-road-to-html-5-contenteditable

An element's isContentEditable property, in browsers which support it, tells you whether the immediate child content of the element is editable. It applies specifically to regular non-interactive content (i.e. not form controls), which can be made editable using the contenteditable attribute:

<div contenteditable="true">This text is all <i>editable</i></div>

The isContentEditable property of both the <div> and the <i> elements above will report true. However, be aware that not every browser that supports contentEditable also supports isContentEditable: Firefox 3.x, for example, supports contentEditable but not isContentEditable.

contenteditable is standardized in HTML5 but has been around for over a decade. It was first introduced in IE 5.5 in 2000 and eventually made its way into other browsers several years later. Firefox has had it since version 3.0 (although it had the document-wide equivalent designMode since pre-1.0) and Safari since (I think) 2.0.

Here's a good summary of the history of contentEditable: http://blog.whatwg/the-road-to-html-5-contenteditable