Question

I use a ckeditor in which I want to insert a non-editable placeholder. According to the docs you can set an attribute (contenteditable="false") to the desired element to make it non-editable.

In Firefox this is working fine, the attribute is attached on the span but in Chrome the attribute is skipped.

I have a testcase with the following code:

HTML

<textarea id="testeditor"><p>testeditor content</p></textarea>
<button id="addPlaceholder">add placeholder</button>

Javascript

$(function() {
  $('#testeditor').ckeditor();
  $('#addPlaceholder').click(function() {
    var editor = $('#testeditor').ckeditorGet();
    editor.insertHtml('<span class="placeholder" contenteditable="false">placeholder</span>');
  });
});

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EDIT

I made another test to check if the contenteditable attributes is attached when inserting an element to the DOM. This works fine in Chrome.

Javascript

$('body').append('<span contenteditable="false">placeholder</span>');

Answer 1

I found the answer when I googled for an alternative for the insertHtml method. It seems that you can use the method insertElement also. So I tried and that doesn’t skip the contenteditable attribute.

New code:

$(function() {
  $('#testeditor').ckeditor();
  $('#addPlaceholder').click(function() {
    var editor = $('#testeditor').ckeditorGet();
    editor.insertElement( CKEDITOR.dom.element.createFromHtml( '<span class="placeholder" contenteditable="false">placeholder</span>' ));
  });
});