25617 2014-05-08 23:57:24 +0000 This is not entirely clear on what happens if contentEditable elements contain elements that are not contentEditable - what happens if the user wants to delete the non-editable element? 2014-05-12 12:46:59 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian groby ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 105514 0 contributor 2014-05-08 23:57:24 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#contenteditable Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#contenteditable Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: This is not entirely clear on what happens if contentEditable elements contain elements that are not contentEditable - what happens if the user wants to delete the non-editable element? I'd expect the correct answer is "the element will be deleted, since the container is editable". Posted from: 74.125.59.177 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1982.0 Safari/537.36 105547 1 ian 2014-05-09 17:28:13 +0000 I believe this is covered by the HTML Editing APIs spec: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html 105574 2 groby 2014-05-09 20:09:17 +0000 It probably does, thanks for pointing me there. (Still parsing the spec, will file bug on editing spec if it turns out it doesn't cover case in question)