[Bug 12487] New: It's not so clear how editability interacts with non-HTML elements. If an HTML element has contenteditable=true and its parent is a non-HTML element, is the HTML element an editing host? (The spec implies no, which seems wrong.) If an HTML element is e

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12487

           Summary: It's not so clear how editability interacts with
                    non-HTML elements.  If an HTML element has
                    contenteditable=true and its parent is a non-HTML
                    element, is the HTML element an editing host?  (The
                    spec implies no, which seems wrong.)  If an HTML
                    element is e
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#con
                    tenteditable
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable

Comment:
It's not so clear how editability interacts with non-HTML elements.  If an
HTML element has contenteditable=true and its parent is a non-HTML element, is
the HTML element an editing host?  (The spec implies no, which seems wrong.) 
If an HTML element is editable and it has a child element that's not an HTML
element, is that child editable?  (Spec implies no, but that also seems
wrong.)  What happens if a non-HTML element has an HTML contenteditable
attribute?  (Spec implies it does nothing, including that it doesn't make
descendant HTML elements editable, which seems wrong.)    How about you make
editability a property of all elements, not just HTML elements?

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Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:17:31 UTC