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Bug 9379 - If contenteditable is true, this *should* mean that the *content* of the element is editable, not the element itself. For example, if the user selects "mytext" in <div contenteditable=true>mytext</div>, and then invokes execCommand('bold'), this should wr
Summary: If contenteditable is true, this *should* mean that the *content* of the elem...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 9380 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-03-31 21:55 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-03-31 21:55:52 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable

Comment:
If contenteditable is true, this *should* mean that the *content* of the
element is editable, not the element itself. For example, if the user selects
"mytext" in <div contenteditable=true>mytext</div>, and then invokes
execCommand('bold'), this should wrap the selection in <b> or <strong> or
<span style='font-weight: bold'> tags, but it should *not* alter the div
element to be <div contenteditable=true style='font-weight: bold'>

Posted from: 64.253.149.226
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2010-04-01 09:44:56 UTC 
*** Bug 9380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-12 07:32:22 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The section is pretty precise about what exactly it means — search for the term "editing host". I don't think it's inaccurate to say that an editing host is editable, after all, its attributes and its contents are all part of the element and in theory they can all be changed by the user when the element is editable.