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.

The HTMLElement.isContentEditable read-only property returns a boolean value that is true if the contents of the element are editable; otherwise it returns false.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

HTML

html
<p id="firstParagraph">Uneditable Paragraph</p>
<p id="secondParagraph" contenteditable="true">Editable Paragraph</p>

<p id="infoText1">Is the first paragraph editable?</p>
<p id="infoText2">Is the second paragraph editable?</p>

JavaScript

js
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;

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-iscontenteditable-dev

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
isContentEditable

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Full support
Full support

See also