Clarification of events to fire when gaining and losing focus
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Description
It is not clear from reading the spec what events should fire when a contenteditable when the focusing and unfocusing steps are run, particularly in the
Presumably, the same events that are fired by similar changes to a textarea are fired, but I can't find a canonical list of these. Having said that, https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-focusevent-event-order and https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/indices.html#event-input-change seem relevant.
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Research direction
Start by comparing the focusing and unfocusing steps with the cited DOM Level 3 Events focus-event order and HTML event-input/change references. Done means the specification clearly identifies which events fire when a contenteditable gains or loses focus, including whether the behavior matches textarea.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- documentation, web-dev
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100