HTML - DOM Element isContentEditable Property

The HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property is used to check if a webpage element can be edited by users directly or not.

This property returns a boolean value true, only if the users can edit the content of a specific element on the webpage, and false if the content is not editable by users.

Syntax

Following is the syntax of the HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property −

element.isContentEditable

Parameters

Since this is a property, it will not accept any parameter.

Return Value

This property returns true if the element content can be edited by the user and false otherwise.

Example 1: Checking Content Editable

If the content is editable, the HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property will return true −

 



HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property
Element's content can be edited...
 

This div is editable. Edit Me!


 

     

The above program returns "true", because the div element content can be edited by users.

Example 2: Content Non-Editable

Following is another example of the HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property. Since the content can't be edited by users, it will return false −

 



HTML DOM Element isContentEditable property
Element's content cannot be edited
 

Try to edit this content.



        

The above program returns "false", because the div element content can't be edited by users.

Supported Browsers

Property
isContentEditable	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes