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alanh on March 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Build a CMS, no forms allowed

One example of the Firefox contenteditable nightmare:

1. Use a `white-space` other than the default — for example, `pre-wrap`

2. Try to edit the content in Firefox

Welcome to bizzarro-land, where your cursor finds itself unable to position itself in very reasonable locations in your content…

arethuza on March 3, 2011 [–]

Don't remind me - I once wrote server side code to translate HTML between the forms that different browsers are happy editing using contenteditable.

I'm a markdown man these days!

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