12533 2011-04-20 12:35:25 +0000 Being able to control what the user agent is creating on a command would be useful. Otherwise I have to listen to DOM mutation events or parse my editable text to find out. 2011-11-07 20:29:05 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED DUPLICATE 13891 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#editing-apis P3 normal --- 1 contributor ayg ayg brunoaiss ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 47575 0 contributor 2011-04-20 12:35:25 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#editing-apis Comment: Being able to control what the user agent is creating on a command would be useful. Otherwise I have to listen to DOM mutation events or parse my editable text to find out. Posted from: 130.149.33.2 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 47590 1 ayg 2011-04-21 19:51:58 +0000 I'm currently working on speccing editing APIs, so I'll assign this bug to myself. Such a new feature is almost certainly out of scope for HTML5, but I don't know of a better component right now, so I'll leave it as HTML5. Maybe one day we'll get an HTML6 component. Currently I'm working on defining the existing API, but at some point I might work on speccing new features. I've seen this use-case in practice. For instance, one editor I looked at wanted to add custom attributes to images inserted using insertImage. It did so by adding the image, then iterating over all images in the edit window and modifying any with the right src. Another editor I looked at used insertImage as an insertHtml workaround for IE, by inserting an image with an improbable src, then using the equivalent of querySelector("[src=MYSRC]") (with shims) to find it, then removing it and inserting the HTML in its place. The obvious way to do this would be to allow commands to return some command-specific value (like an HTMLImgElement for insertImage). I don't know if we can compatibly make execCommand() return anything, though. Any suggestions for syntax? 53621 2 mike 2011-08-04 05:15:47 +0000 mass-move component to LC1 59701 3 ayg 2011-11-07 20:29:05 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13891 ***