HTMLElement: contentEditable property
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The contentEditable property of
the HTMLElement interface specifies whether or not the element is
editable.
This enumerated attribute can have the following values:
"true"indicates that the element iscontenteditable."false"indicates that the element cannot be edited."plaintext-only"indicates that the element's raw text is editable, but rich text formatting is disabled.
You can use the HTMLElement.isContentEditable property to test the
computed boolean value of this property.
If the attribute is missing or its value is invalid, its value is inherited from its parent element: so the element is editable (or not) based on the parent element.
Value
A string.
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See also
HTMLElement.isContentEditable- The
contenteditableglobal attribute.