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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>
Input Events
</title>
<style>
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<body>
<section id="abstract">
<p>
This specification defines additions to events for text and related
input to allow for the monitoring and manipulation of default browser
behavior in the context of text editor applications and other
applications that deal with text input and text formatting. This
specification builds on the UI events spec [[UI-EVENTS]].
</p>
</section>
<section id="sotd">
<p>
Input Events Level 2 replaces the first version of Input Events
[[INPUT-EVENTS]] and includes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Inputtypes for beforeinput events for the start and end of IME
compositions that allow isolation of the IME composition process.
</li>
<li>More requirements for cancelability of beforeinput events, so that
all beforeinput events apart from those being emited within an IME
composition process are cancelable.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
The <a href=
"https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/input-events">test
suite</a> and <a href=
"https://w3c.github.io/test-results/input-events/">implementation
reports</a> for the Input Events specification are still work in
progress.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>
Introduction
</h2>
<p>
This document describes editing related additions to 2 events -
<a href="https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#event-type-input">input</a>
and <a href=
"https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#beforeinput">beforeinput</a> which are
described in the UI events spec [[UI-EVENTS]]. The goal of these events
is to allow authors to understand and/or override default edit behavior
both before and after editing occurs.
</p>
</section>
<section id="conformance"></section>
<section>
<h2>
Definitions
</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
<dfn>express intention</dfn>
</dt>
<dd>
A user can <a data-lt="express intention">express an intention</a> to
execute a specific editing operation by means of keyboard, IME,
speech, or similar method. Specific input actions are mapped to
intentions following platform-specific conventions.
</dd>
<dt>
<dfn>kill buffer</dfn>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<i>This definition is not normative.</i>
</p>A <a>kill buffer</a> is a in-memory store of richtext content
that is separate from the clipboard which allows for the temporal
storage of content that was deleted using specific deletion commands.
The user can replace the current selection with the content held in
the kill buffer by indicating an intention to yank the kill buffer.
</dd>
</dl>
</section>
<section>
<h2>
Problems solved
</h2>
<p>
<i>This section is not normative.</i>
</p>
<p>
Creating a webbased texteditor requires a considerable amount of
JavaScript on top of the browser code, among other things because:
</p>
<ol>
<li>Browsers do not handle all editing operations the same way.
</li>
<li>Browsers are often buggy in the way they handle certain editing
operations.
</li>
<li>Individual sites may have custom preferences for how they want to
handle certain editing operations.
</li>
<li>The development of high-level text editing features in browsers has
not followed the principles laid out in the <a href=
"https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/">Extensible Web Manifesto</a> in
that development of these features has not always been in coordination
with the needs of the web developer community.
</li>
</ol>
<p>
This spec seeks to alleviate the problem by providing a simple way for
web developers to both override browser handling of all user input
related to text editing through the <a>beforeinput</a> event, and to
monitor what browsers have changed in the DOM due to user input through
the <a>input</a> event.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h2>
Use cases
</h2>
<p>
<i>This section is not normative.</i>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Creating a JavaScript text editor in which the <strong>-tag
is used instead of the <b>-tag to mark text that the user marks
as bold, using any browser-builtin way to mark a text as bold, without
having access to all existing browsers.
</li>
<li>Creating a JavaScript text editor which works with a data model in
the background where JavaScript takes care of rendering changes to the
edited text to the DOM.
</li>
<li>Creating a JavaScript editor which only allows a subset of richtext
editing (for example: bold is allowed, but italic not).
</li>
<li>Creating a collaborative editor in which JavaScript is used to
render changes to the DOM, based on user intentions with users using
different browsers with different ways of expressing specific
intentions.
</li>
<li>Creating a JavaScript editor with different user access options,
where some users only can add or delete text and other users only can
add or remove certain types of formatting.
</li>
</ol>
</section>
<section id="events-inputevents">
<h3>
Input Event Types
</h3>
<p>
Input events are sent before (beforeinput event) and after (input
event) a user attempts to edit the markup. This includes insertion and
deletion of content, and formatting changes.
</p>
<p>
Input events are [=dispatched=] on elements that act as [=editing
hosts=], including elements with the contenteditable attribute set,
[^textarea^] elements, and [^input^] elements that permit text input.
</p>
<section id="interface-InputEvent">
<h4>
Interface InputEvent
</h4>
<pre class="idl">
partial interface InputEvent {
readonly attribute DataTransfer? dataTransfer;
sequence<StaticRange> getTargetRanges();
};
partial dictionary InputEventInit {
DataTransfer? dataTransfer = null;
sequence<StaticRange> targetRanges = [];
};
</pre>
<p data-dfn-for="InputEventInit">
The attributes {{InputEvent/inputType}}, <dfn>dataTransfer</dfn> and
<dfn data-lt="targetRange">targetRanges</dfn> of {{InputEventInit}}
initialize the corresponding attributes of the {{InputEvent}} object.
</p>
<section>
<h5>
Overview
</h5>
<p>
<i>This section is not normative.</i>
</p>
<p data-link-for="InputEvent">
The following table provides a summary of when the <a>data</a> and
<a>dataTransfer</a> attributes contain contents and when they are
null as well as when the <a>getTargetRanges()</a> method returns an
empty or non-empty Array, based on the inputType.
</p>
<table class="parameters simple">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Editing host
</th>
<th>
inputType
</th>
<th>
data
</th>
<th>
dataTransfer
</th>
<th>
getTargetRanges()
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Contenteditable
</td>
<td>
<code>"insertText"</code>,
<code>"insertCompositionText"</code>,
<code>"formatSetBlockTextDirection"</code>,
<code>"formatSetInlineTextDirection"</code>,
<code>"formatBackColor"</code>,
<code>"formatFontColor"</code>,
<code>"formatFontName"</code>, <code>"insertLink"</code>
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Non-empty Array
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Contenteditable
</td>
<td>
<code>"insertFromPaste"</code>,
<code>"insertFromPasteAsQuotation"</code>,
<code>"insertFromDrop"</code>,
<code>"insertReplacementText"</code>,
<code>"insertFromYank"</code>
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Non-empty Array
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code><textarea></code>, <code><input
type="text"></code>
</td>
<td>
<code>"insertText"</code>,
<code>"insertCompositionText"</code>,
<code>"insertFromPaste"</code>,
<code>"insertFromPasteAsQuotation"</code>,
<code>"insertFromDrop"</code>,
<code>"insertReplacementText"</code>,
<code>"insertFromYank"</code>,
<code>"formatSetBlockTextDirection"</code>,
<code>"formatSetInlineTextDirection"</code>,
<code>"formatBackColor"</code>,
<code>"formatFontColor"</code>,
<code>"formatFontName"</code>, <code>"insertLink"</code>
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Empty Array
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
All
</td>
<td>
<code>"historyUndo"</code>, <code>"historyRedo"</code>
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Empty Array
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Contenteditable
</td>
<td>
All Remaining
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Non-empty Array
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code><textarea></code>, <code><input
type="text"></code>
</td>
<td>
All Remaining
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
null
</td>
<td>
Empty Array
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="interface-InputEvent-Attributes" data-dfn-for=
"InputEvent">
<h5>
Attributes
</h5>
<p>
The cancelability of the beforeinput event depends on the
inputType.
</p>
<p>
The inputType to be picked depends on the user's <a data-lt=
"express intention">expression of intention</a>, whether or not the
editing takes place during an IME composition and the state of the
selection.
</p>
<p>
This specification defines the inputType values as the values in
the inputType column of the following table.
</p>
<table class="parameters simple">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
inputType
</th>
<th>
User's expression of intention
</th>
<th>
Part of IME composition
</th>
<th>
beforeinput cancelable
</th>
<th>
State of selection
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertText"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert typed plain text
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertReplacementText"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert or replace existing text by means of a spell checker,
auto-correct, writing suggestions or similar
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertLineBreak"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a line break
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertParagraph"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a paragraph break
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertOrderedList"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a numbered list
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertUnorderedList"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a bulleted list
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertHorizontalRule"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a horizontal rule
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertFromYank"</code>
</td>
<td>
replace the current selection with content stored in a
<a>kill buffer</a>
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertFromDrop"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert content by means of drop
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertFromPaste"</code>
</td>
<td>
paste content from clipboard or paste image from client
provided image library
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertFromPasteAsQuotation"</code>
</td>
<td>
paste content from the clipboard as a quotation
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertTranspose"</code>
</td>
<td>
transpose the last two [=grapheme cluster=]. that were
entered
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertCompositionText"</code>
</td>
<td>
replace the current composition string
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"insertLink"</code>
</td>
<td>
insert a link
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteWordBackward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete a word directly before the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteWordForward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete a word directly after the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteSoftLineBackward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete from the caret to the nearest visual line break before
the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteSoftLineForward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete from the caret to the nearest visual line break after
the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteEntireSoftLine"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete from the nearest visual line break before the caret
position to the nearest visual line break after the caret
position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteHardLineBackward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete from the caret to the nearest beginning of a block
element or <code><a data-link-type="element" href=
"https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-br-element">br</a></code>
element before the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteHardLineForward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete from the caret to the nearest end of a block element
or <code><a data-link-type="element" href=
"https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-br-element">br</a></code>
element after the caret position
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteByDrag"</code>
</td>
<td>
remove content from the DOM by means of drag
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteByCut"</code>
</td>
<td>
remove the current selection as part of a cut
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteContent"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete the selection without specifying the direction of the
deletion and this intention is not covered by another
inputType
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Non-collapsed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteContentBackward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete the content directly before the caret position and
this intention is not covered by another inputType or delete
the selection with the selection collapsing to its start
after the deletion
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"deleteContentForward"</code>
</td>
<td>
delete the content directly after the caret position and this
intention is not covered by another inputType or delete the
selection with the selection collapsing to its end after the
deletion
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"historyUndo"</code>
</td>
<td>
undo the last editing action
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"historyRedo"</code>
</td>
<td>
to redo the last undone editing action
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"formatBold"</code>
</td>
<td>
initiate bold text
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"formatItalic"</code>
</td>
<td>
initiate italic text
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"formatUnderline"</code>
</td>
<td>
initiate underline text
</td>
<td>
No
</td>
<td>
Yes
</td>
<td>
Any
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<code>"formatStrikeThrough"</code>
</td>
<td>
initiate stricken through text