isContentEditable Property

Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can edit the contents of the object .

Syntax

HTML Scripting

N/A

[ bCanEdit = ] object . isContentEditable

Possible Values

bCanEdit

Boolean that receives one of the following values.

false	The content cannot be edited.
true	The content can be edited.

The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Example

The following example shows how to use the isContentEditable property to determine whether the user can edit the content of an object.

<head>
<SCRIPT>
function chgSpan()
{ currentState = oSpan. isContentEditable ;
newState = !currentState;
oSpan.contentEditable = newState;
oCurrentValue.innerText = newState;
newState==false ? oBtn.innerText="Enable Editing" : oBtn.innerText="Disable Editing" }
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload="oCurrentValue.innerText = oSpan. isContentEditable ;">
<P>Click the button to enable or disable SPAN content editing.</P>
<P> <BUTTON ID="oBtn" onclick="chgSpan()">Enable Editing</BUTTON> </P>
<P><SPAN ID="oSpan">You can edit this text.</SPAN></P>
Span can be edited: <SPAN ID="oCurrentValue"></SPAN>
</body>

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this property.

Applies To

TEXTAREA Platform Version

Win32:	5.5
Windows CE:	5.5

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