HTML DOM isContentEditable Property

Last Updated : 15 Jun, 2023

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

Syntax:

Object.isContentEditable

Return Value: This property returns a boolean value.

true means that the content of an element is editable.
false means that the content of an element is not editable.

Example: In this example, we will use the isContentEditable property

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   
<head>
    <title>
        DOM iscontentEditable Property
    </title>
</head>
   
<body style="text-align: center">
    <h1 style="color:green">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1>
    <h2>
        DOM iscontentEditable Property
    </h2>
    <span id="P" contenteditable="true">
        Span 1 is editable.
 
    </span>
    <span id="P1">
        Span 2 is non editable.
    </span>
    <br>
    <br>
    <button onclick="myFunction()">
        Click me!
    </button>
    <p id="d"></p>
    <p id="d1"></p>
   
    <script>
        function myFunction() {
            let x =
                document.getElementById("P").isContentEditable;
            let y =
                document.getElementById("P1").isContentEditable;
            document.getElementById("d").innerHTML =
                "Span 1 is editable: " + x;
            document.getElementById("d1").innerHTML =
                "Span 2 is editable: " + y;
        }
    </script>
</body>
   
</html>