Textarea contenteditable

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I am trying to make a textarea content editable and I am failing. I am using this code: ``` ``` I am expecting a result like http://html5demos.com/contenteditable Does anyone have an idea why it's not working? Edit: I am doing this because I am trying to do a oneliner to add a control to a form in which (HTML) formatted content can be pasted and retain its formatting. I am trying to do this without fuss and without javascript code. It appears this is not possible. I will close this question in a day if no further input to the contrary is added.

Accepted Answer

Have you set the right doctype at the top of your page? For HTML5 you need the following doctype:

```
<!DOCTYPE html>
```

Also, why a textarea? textareas are already editable.

Textarea contenteditable

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