The alignment of inline contenteditable tags is not working properly in Internet Explorer

I am facing an issue where inline contenteditable span tags are working fine in all browsers except for IE. In Internet Explorer, the tags are not acting as inline and instead aligning themselves as block elements. This behavior seems to be caused by IE when dealing with content editable tags.

<div class="container">
<span class="text" contenteditable="true">Lorem ipsum dolor </span>
<span class="tag">Tag</span>
<span class="text" contenteditable="true"> sed dignissim maximus mattis </span>
<span class="tag">Tag</span>
<span class="text" contenteditable="true"> vel ex ut nisi elementum tincidunt libero</span>

For a demonstration, you can view this example on Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/glennmicallef/m7tkgo2u/

Open the fiddle in both IE and Chrome to compare the difference in behavior.

cssinternet-explorerinlinecontenteditable

Answer №1

In my situation, I utilized the :before and :after pseudo-elements to make this happen.

[contenteditable=true]:before {
  content: attr(before-content);
  margin-right: 2px;
}
<div class="container">
  <span class="text" contenteditable="true>Lorem ipsum dolor </span>
  <span before-content="Tag" contenteditable="true"> sed dignissim maximus mattis </span>
  <span before-content="Tag" contenteditable="true"> vel ex ut nisi elementum tincidunt libero</span"
</div>

This ensures that the pseudo-element remains non-editable while allowing the rest to be edited.

The user experience is optimal only in Internet Explorer though...

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