It would be nice to know more details on how you are thinking to use this and why this is very useful for code editors. If I select all my code and hit Delete, don't I want to remove all the code, together with highlighting?
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nikita Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > The current version of spec > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html#contenteditable > does not define any way to make an element within contentEditable > undeletable. I propose "undeletable" attribute: > > element.undeletable = "true" | "false" > > How should it work: > > <div contenteditable> > <span undeletable>foo</span> > </div> > > When I focus on the div, select all the text, and delete it, the span > element MUST be empty, but MUST NOT be deleted. > > This behavior would be very useful while building code editors. I'm > building CSS editor with syntax highlighting and auto-completion based on > contentEditable. "undeletable" attribute would help me a lot. >
