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Specs and explainers maintained by the editing task force

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Forks: 43
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 133

Dominant language: HTML
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Last GitHub push: Jul 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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iOS Safari: URL bar invisible hitbox overlaps text selection grab circle Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#550 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
iOS Safari: Support meta content="interactive-widget=resizes-content" Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#549 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Safari: incorrect keyboard state Open

awaits feedback from Safari

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#548 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
When should metadata-content elements like <style> be editable? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#546 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
IOS Safari: Ability to opt-out of Form assistant bar (which is useless for single-field editors and takes up a lot of space) Open

bug-reports-filed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

w3c/editing#545 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Spec for InsertImage command is (no longer) 'correct'. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#543 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Inconsistent `KeyboardEvent.shiftKey` behavior for virtual keyboard autocapitalization Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

w3c/editing#542 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026
forming of community editing group Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#541 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Participation at TPAC 2026? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

w3c/editing#540 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Chrome: Selection barrier at details element when contenteditable=true Open

bug-reports-filed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#538 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Caret movement based on visual screen position rather than DOM order? Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#533 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2026
execCommand commands listed in MDN but not in the spec Open

execCommand

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

w3c/editing#530 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Explainer for Caret Movement Spec Open

caret-movement charter

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#529 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Spec: Empty addressable content fields with placeholders Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

w3c/editing#528 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Selection updates from Web APIs should scroll to reveal selection in scrollable containers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#526 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2026
Spec proposal for document.execCommand(‘insertHTML’) Open

execCommand

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#525 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Firefox: Up/Down arrow navigation doesn't work with absolutely positioned elements in contenteditable Open

bug-reports-filed caret-movement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

w3c/editing#523 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2026
`insertText` should move to parent node if range's start container is a void element Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

w3c/editing#522 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2026
[execCommand] Incorrect condition in 9.9 toggle-lists Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

w3c/editing#521 · Opened Jan 1, 2026
Ability to anchor a popover to the native selection rectangle using CSS Anchor Positioning Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#518 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Safari Desktop: Adding an empty span to an otherwise empty editable element, makes the element unselectable Open

bug-reports-filed caret-movement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#516 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Safari/Chrome Desktop: Caret movement with up/down arrow keys breaks when DOM is constructed programmatically Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#513 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Expose event.getTargetRanges() in oncompositionstart (and possibly oncompositionend as well) Open

TPAC2025

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#511 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Add ability to control native undo/redo stack Open

TPAC2025

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#509 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
All browsers: Add ability to cancel character composition (IME) at the very beginning Open

TPAC2025

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#508 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: When aborting a soft-keyboard-driven IME, the new selection is not set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#507 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: Autosuggest/correct only works when native contenteditable is doing the rendering Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/editing#506 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: When aborting a composition after pressing a dead key (e.g. `^`) in oncompositionend event.data will have `""` while `"^"` is expected Open

bug-reports-filed priority

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

w3c/editing#505 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Firefox + Chrome Desktop + Android: document.execCommand does not trigger a 'historyUndo' onbeforinput event after running document.execCommand('undo') Open

execCommand

w3c/editing#504 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Speccing placeholders Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#503 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Firefox: Clicking a placeholder inside a contenteditable element does not focus the element Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#502 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Firefox: Cursor is misaligned on centered text with placeholder Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#501 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Firefox: Empty fields with placeholder are not keyboard selectable Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

w3c/editing#500 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: Conditional Show/ Hide of br element in contenteditable element make caret disappear Open

bug-reports-filed caret-movement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

w3c/editing#499 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari/Chrome/Firefox: Caret Rendering inconsistent with empty placeholder across browsers Open

caret-movement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#498 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: Editing an empty `<a>` makes content leak outside the `<a>` Open

bug-reports-filed priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

w3c/editing#497 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Safari Desktop: position: relative on parent of empty text div makes content leak outside the text div. Open

bug-reports-filed priority

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

w3c/editing#496 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Android: At onbeforeinput always fires 'deleteContentBackward' and never 'deleteWordBackward' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#495 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Firefox: event.getTargetRanges() in beforeinput not consistent with window.getSelection() Open

w3c/editing#493 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Nested editing hosts do not need to be wrapped in insertParagraph Open

execCommand

w3c/editing#490 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Canonicalize Whitespace algorithm does not respect the `white-space-collapse` CSS property Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

w3c/editing#486 · Opened May 21, 2025
Recharter the Web Editing WG Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/editing#484 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Clarification on [NoInterfaceObject] for SVGPathSegment and Usage of setPathData() Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#483 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Inconsistent Behavior of Softwrap Property in Textarea Across Browsers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#482 · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Valid text element declaration for rich text editing caret accessibility Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/editing#481 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2025
Disable `formatBlock` for `contenteditable=plaintext-only` Open

execCommand

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#478 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 24, 2025
Recursively executing `execCommand()` should be prevented Open

execCommand

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#477 · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Invalid or identical colors provided to `backColor`/`foreColor`/`hiliteColor` should return `true` instead of `false` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 50/100

w3c/editing#476 · Opened Jan 23, 2025
`selectAll` command should be disabled if no selection exists on the context object Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/editing#475 · Opened Jan 20, 2025
Indeterminate state for `formatBlock` mentions "return the empty string" Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 50/100

w3c/editing#474 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2025

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