contenteditable missing some allowed values description

[dabuside]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contenteditable

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

main content

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The above page says contenteditable has 2 enumerable values true, false.
But the browser compatibility table says it's values can be caret, events, plaintext-only, typing
Also note that page says the values also can be inherit

What did you expect to see?

1. Add some description about caret, events, plaintext-only, typing values
2. Correct the allowed values

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://w3c.github.io/contentEditable/

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

MDN metadata

Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/html/global_attributes/contenteditable
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contenteditable
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/global_attributes/contenteditable/index.md
• Last commit: b279919
• Document last modified: 2022-10-10T06:50:47.000Z

[OnkarRuikar]

As per the latest spec on 7th December 2023 only valid values are "", true, false, and plaintext-only. Implicit value is inherit.
And both the documents cover these.

[dabuside]

As per the latest spec on 7th December 2023 only valid values are "", true, false, and plaintext-only. Implicit value is inherit. And both the documents cover these.

w3c's spec(Editor's draft) didn't match whatwg's spec.
They are conflicted.

[OnkarRuikar]

w3c's spec(Editor's draft) didn't match whatwg's spec. They are conflicted.

• The draft is outdated and those values are not supported anymore. They have been removed from MDN as well: Remove non-standard, unsupported contenteditable types browser-compat-data#20071

[dancer1325]

Could we take advantage of this issue, and create a PR to remove the reference about inherit or specify it better in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/contentEditable ?

I can create the PR if you agree with.
@OnkarRuikar / @dabuside

[OnkarRuikar]

Could we take advantage of this issue, and create a PR to remove the reference about inherit or specify it better in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/contentEditable ?

I can create the PR if you agree with. @OnkarRuikar / @dabuside

Yes, we need to update the doc.
As per the specs inherit is not a value but the default state:

The attribute's missing value default and invalid value default are both the inherit state. The inherit state indicates that the element is editable (or not) based on the parent element's state.

[Josh-Cena]

Fixed by #31935