HTMLElement: isContentEditable property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

TheHTMLElement.isContentEditable read-only propertyreturns a boolean value that istrue if the contents of the elementare editable; otherwise it returnsfalse.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

HTML

html

<p>Uneditable Paragraph</p><p contenteditable="true">Editable Paragraph</p><p>Is the first paragraph editable?</p><p>Is the second paragraph editable?</p>

JavaScript

const firstParagraph = document.getElementById("firstParagraph");const secondParagraph = document.getElementById("secondParagraph");const infoText1 = document.getElementById("infoText1");const infoText2 = document.getElementById("infoText2");infoText1.textContent += ` ${firstParagraph.isContentEditable}`;infoText2.textContent += ` ${secondParagraph.isContentEditable}`;