180211 - nsIEditingSession needs an api to make it not editable

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

nsIEditingSession needs an api to make it not editable

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can I assume that the syntax to trigger this will be document.designMode='off'?

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can I assume that the syntax to trigger this will be document.designMode='off'?
I don't think so. I believe this bug is for editor elements and having a
complementary method to makeEditable. One item of note is that it appears that
if a document has one iframe that has designMode="on" then

var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName("iframe");
iframes[0].contentWindow.document.designMode = "off";

will turn designMode off whereas when the document is not in an iframe it does
not turn it off as seen in your test page at:
http://www.squarefree.com/contenteditable.html

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

This is a request of internal API, but nobody works for this over a decade. It means that this is not so important. I'm open to implement it if it's still be useful for somebody. Feel free to reopen this if you needs this with writing how you become happy if this is fixed.