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		TedDoesntTalk on April 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're building a browser when it's supposed to be ... What is “content editable”?

codetrotter on April 11, 2023 | [–]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

Basically if you set the content editable attribute on an element then the user can edit the content of the element directly

Here is an example using it:

https://codepen.io/caraya/pen/ZyQMWd

mkl on April 11, 2023 | [–]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

It's an HTML attribute that makes content (mainly text) editable by end users.

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