[whatwg] innerHTML for HTML and <plaintext>

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Sat Dec 9 03:25:21 PST 2006


On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:57:07 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>> The section "If the child node is a Text or CDATASection node" should
>> include the <plaintext> element.
>
> <plaintext> in general isn't supported by the innerHTML spec -- for
> example, it would always introduce a new </plaintext> element. Is that a
> problem?

Yeah, the way the contents of a <plaintext> element node are returned has  
given Opera at least one interop issue.


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Anne van Kesteren
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