Re: Rendering: contenteditable

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> The spec should say in the rendering section that a block that is an 
> editing host and would with normal CSS rules collapse, should instead 
> act as if it had a line box so that it doesn't collapse. This is in 
> order to allow the user to be able to click in the element to place the 
> caret and start typing.

This would cause the rendering to not be at all WYSIWYG. I have, however, 
made the spec explicitly say that the caret is like an empty inline and 
that _it_ causes a line box to appear.

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 01:23:58 UTC