w3c/editing Issues

Last updated Dec 17, 2025, 5:59:42 AM UTC.

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34 out-of-SLO untriaged issues
1 issues on the agenda that have been waiting too long

Untriaged

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Issue	Title	Within SLO	On maintainers' plates for	Time left	Time past SLO
#117	CTRL+BACKSPACE or its equivalent behavior when deleting block elements	❌	9.8 years		9.8 years
#132	How to handle IME-alike input for European languages on Mac OS X for accent marks on long key press	❌	9.4 years		9.4 years
#151	We should have more steps for Selection#extend()	❌	9.2 years		9.2 years
#161	Behavior of queryCommandEnabled	❌	8.8 years		8.8 years
#170	Draggable elements with clipboard actions clarification	❌	8.2 years		8.2 years
#182	Browsers should help in maximising the available space	❌	7.2 years		7.1 years
#192	"The removeFormat command" section should include `<del>` as target of the command	❌	6.7 years		6.7 years
#241	The mapping CSS property for execCommand('underline') and execCommand('strikeThrough')	❌	5.7 years		5.7 years
#243	Match browser behaviors of execCommand(bold)	❌	5.7 years		5.6 years
#246	Unlinking algorithm always removes anchor element	❌	5.6 years		5.6 years
#250	Fix linking error in the spec for DOMTokenList in contenteditable-disabled doc	❌	5.6 years		5.6 years
#252	Add a way to get the list of supported commands in contenteditable-disabled	❌	5.6 years		5.6 years
#313	Distinguish paste types	❌	4.5 years		4.4 years
#331	Figure out if contenteditabledisabled or parts thereof need to go into HTML spec	❌	4.3 years		4.3 years
#425	[Delayed Clipboard Rendering] Does macOS support setting the data for the requested pasteboard item asynchronously?	❌	2.6 years		2.6 years
#442	Outdent behavior with respect to list items is not aligned with popular editors	❌	2.2 years		2.2 years
#443	Outdent immediately after indent should restore pre-indent DOM (like popular editors do)	❌	2.2 years		2.2 years
#466	Broken links in execCommand	❌	1.3 years		1.3 years
#469	TPAC 2024 agenda (preliminary) 2024-09-26	❌	1.2 years		1.2 years
#472	Add mechanism to control enablement of handwriting	❌	1.1 years		1 year
#473	No-op in "delete the selection" algorithm with end block's parent	❌	1 year		1 year
#474	Indeterminate state for `formatBlock` mentions "return the empty string"	❌	11.2 months		11 months
#475	`selectAll` command should be disabled if no selection exists on the context object	❌	10.9 months		10.6 months
#476	Invalid or identical colors provided to `backColor`/`foreColor`/`hiliteColor` should return `true` instead of `false`	❌	10.8 months		10.6 months
#477	Recursively executing `execCommand()` should be prevented	❌	10.8 months		10.6 months
#482	Inconsistent Behavior of Softwrap Property in Textarea Across Browsers	❌	8.5 months		8.2 months
#484	Recharter the Web Editing WG	❌	8.2 months		8 months
#485	2025 May meeting cancelled	❌	7.3 months		7.1 months
#486	Canonicalize Whitespace algorithm does not respect the `white-space-collapse` CSS property	❌	6.9 months		6.7 months
#495	Android: At onbeforeinput always fires 'deleteContentBackward' and never 'deleteWordBackward'	❌	4.2 weeks		3.2 weeks
#503	Speccing placeholders	❌	4.2 weeks		3.2 weeks
#506	Safari Desktop: Autosuggest/correct only works when native contenteditable is doing the rendering	❌	4.2 weeks		3.2 weeks
#507	Safari Desktop: When aborting a soft-keyboard-driven IME, the new selection is not set	❌	4.2 weeks		3.2 weeks
#510	Ability to rollback changes after IME, so that editors that manage their own incremental rendering can assume the same DOM as before the IME	❌	4.2 weeks		3.2 weeks
#518	Ability to anchor a popover to the native selection rectangle using CSS Anchor Positioning	✔	6 days	1 day

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Issue	Title	Within SLO	On the agenda for	Time left	Time past SLO
#490	Nested editing hosts do not need to be wrapped in insertParagraph	❌	2.3 months		1.1 months
#505	Safari Desktop: When aborting a composition after pressing a dead key (e.g. `^`) in oncompositionend event.data will have `""` while `"^"` is expected	✔	0.9 weeks	4.1 weeks
#504	Firefox + Chrome Desktop + Android: document.execCommand does not trigger a 'historyUndo' onbeforinput event after running document.execCommand('undo')	✔	0.9 weeks	4.1 weeks
#497	Safari Desktop: Editing an empty `<a>` makes content leak outside the `<a>`	✔	0.9 weeks	4.1 weeks
#516	Safari Desktop: Adding an empty span to an otherwise empty editable element, makes the element unselectable	✔	6 days	4.2 weeks
#493	Firefox: event.getTargetRanges() in beforeinput not consistent with window.getSelection()	✔	6 days	4.2 weeks
#496	Safari Desktop: position: relative on parent of empty text div makes content leak outside the text div.	✔	4 days	1 month