401990 - contenteditable does not work in XHTML

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 207531

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P2)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

The "contenteditable" attribute does not make things editable in XHTML.  I believe this is a serious bug because:

1. This makes it very difficult to create simple testcases for bugs that involve both contenteditable and things that cannot be included in text/html markup, such as SVG, MathML, XUL, XBL, and improperly nested HTML elements.

2. This violates the HTML5 spec, because the spec covers XHTML (in addition to HTML) and requires support for the contenteditable attribute.

Comment 1

[AndrewM]

This doesn't work on Vista either.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably related to bug 320092.

Comment 3

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

FWIW, the testcase crashes Opera9 and IE7, but works in Safari-on-Windows.

Comment 4

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

The patch for bug 207531 (from 3 years ago!) fixes this. It's already r=[e-mail], but it's still waiting on a sr+ from timless. I recommend someone else sr+ it, and we check that in.

Comment 5

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

This bug is a duplicate of 207531, which has a patch waiting for sr.