As I understand it, an element with contentEditable=true
is some kind of WYSIWYG HTML editor. It generates relevant HTML tags corresponding to the command issued.
For example, if one selects text and then presses Ctrl+B, the selected text is placed between <b></b>
tags.
I need to have no style tags in the resulting text. How does one suppress, hijack or control the behavior of those commands?
Other things I could do:
- Filter out the tags after the fact; but then the user will think they have put things in bold when they really haven't
- Re-style the tags so that they don't show, and then filter them out; but there's a chance I might forget one, or that somehow the stylesheet is disabled
- Not use
contentEditable
at all but atextarea
instead. But among other things,contentEditable
makes it really easy to highlight the paragraph that is being edited. That's much more difficult to do with atextarea
.