9379 2010-03-31 21:55:52 +0000 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 2010-10-04 14:57:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 34283 0 contributor 2010-03-31 21:55:52 +0000 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 34326 1 mike 2010-04-01 09:44:56 +0000 *** Bug 9380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 34771 2 ian 2010-04-12 07:32:22 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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.