I have a div who's contenteditable property has been set to true.How do I get the children to respond to keyboard events? Seems like the only way is to capture the events in the parent div and figure out the child via the selection apis. Is there a better way? More specifically, can I attach a keyboard event handler to child elements? Am I missing something?
Attached is sample code that illustrates the problem. Hope the in-code comments are sufficiently explanatory.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div id="editable" contentEditable='true' style='height: 130px; width: 400px; border-style:solid; border-width:1px'>
<span id="span1" onkeypress="alert('span1 keypress')">test text 1</span> <!-- does not work -->
<span id="span2" > test text2</span>
<span id="span3" onclick="alert('span3 clicked')">test text 3</span> <!-- this works fine -->
</div>
<!-- Uncomment this to set a keypress handler for span2 programatically. still doesnt work -->
<!--
<script type="text/javascript">
var span2 = document.getElementById('span2');
span2.onkeypress=function() {alert('keypressed on ='+this.id)};
</script>
-->
<!-- Uncomment this to enable keyboard events for the whole div. Finding the actual child that the event is happening on requires using the selection api -->
<!--
<script type="text/javascript">
var editable = document.getElementById('editable');
editable.onkeypress=function() {alert('key pressed on ='+this.id+';selnode='+getSelection().anchorNode.parentNode.id+',offset='+getSelection().getRangeAt(0).startOffset)};
</script>
-->
</BODY>
</HTML>