- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:11:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Guilherme Johansson Tramontina wrote: > > I saw that elements with the "draggable" attribute become focusable. > But what about "contenteditable"? Yes. (I've clarified the spec to make this more obvious.) > My main questions/suggestions are: > - Should the contenteditable element be focusable? Yes (modulo platform conventions). > - And its children elements? Technically, it's the editing host that's focusable. > - How about events (like onChange) for the editable element and/or > for its children? How do you mean? > Here is a simple HTML example: > <ol contenteditable='true'> > <li>Item 1</li> > <li>Item 2</li> > <li>Item 3</li> > </ol> > > By default none of this elements are focusable, correct? Not without the contenteditable="" attribute, no. > If I bind an onFocus/onBlur event handlers on the OL element, both get > triggered when I click on it and off it... Which means that it became > focusable due to the contenteditable attribute! The editing host (the <ol> element) is focusable, otherwise it wouldn't be editable, yes. > Going further, if I turn the LI elements focusable by adding the > "tabindex='-1'" attribute and also bind onFocus/onBlue event handlers > on them, when I click any LI item, here is what is currently > happening: > - In Chrome (can't remeber version), this is the event order: LI's > onFocus -> LI's onBlur -> OL's onFocus; > - In Firefox (can't remeber version), the only event triggered is LI's onFocus; I don't really know what it would mean to focus the <li> elements if the <ol> was already focused, really. I mean, everything that's editable has to be reachable by the cursor (i.e. focusable), right? It's just part of being editable. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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