HTML | DOM contentEditable Property

Last Updated : 30 Nov, 2019

The DOM contentEditable property is used to return a Boolean value where true means the content of an element is editable and false represents the content is not editable. This property is read-only.

Syntax:

Returns the contentEditable property:
```
HTMLElementObject.contentEditable
```

Set the contentEditable property:

HTMLElementObject.contentEditable = true | false

Return Value: This property returns a Boolean value:

True – It means the content of an element is editable.
False – It means that the content of an element is not editable.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
  
<head>  
    <title>  
        DOM iscontentEditable Property  
    </title>  
</head>  
  
<body style="text-align: center">  
    <h1 style="color:green">  
            GeeksforGeeks  
        </h1>  
  
    <h2>  
        DOM contentEditable Property  
    </h2> 
   
    <span id="P" contenteditable="true">  
        Span 1 is editable. 
    </span>  
    <br>  
  
    <button onclick="GFGFun()">  
        Click 
    </button>  
  
    <p id="pid"></p>  
    <p id="pid1"></p>  
  
    <script>  
        function GFGFun() {  
            var gfgvar =  
                document.getElementById("P").isContentEditable;  
          
            document.getElementById("pid").innerHTML =  
                "Span 1 is editable: " + gfgvar;  
        }  
    </script>  
</body>  
  
</html> 