[whatwg] comment on autofocus attribute from Web Forms 2.0 spec

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:46:48 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Adele Peterson wrote:
>> I saw the need for this in our Web Inspector, which has a lot of custom
>> controls (including some that use contenteditable elements).  Some of
>> these don't have a default focused appearance, but its nice that they
>> can follow the focus pseudo-class CSS selector.
>>
>> I agree that the disabled attribute would fit in well with this.
>> Again, it would be nice for these custom controls to be able to use the
>> disabled pseudo-class CSS selector.
>
> I really would rather see XBL2's <div> element be extended to be
> focusable and disablable rather than have HTML support this. Does that
> make sense?

How would you disable <td contenteditable> or <div contenteditable> with  
that strategy and have td:disabled and div:disabled (or something very  
close to it) work?


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