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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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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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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

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