[whatwg] Pressing Enter in contenteditable: <p> or <br> or <div>?

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Fri May 13 21:47:00 PDT 2011


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> > I _think_ we consider that a bug in Gecko.
>
> It does violate a "should" in HTML5, added a while back in reply to that
> bug:
>
> "A br element should separate paragraphs for the purposes of the
> Unicode bidirectional algorithm."
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-br-element
>

We have patches in hand to implement that behavior. You should expect it to
happen in some future version of Firefox.

Rob
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