KB188864 - INFO: Internet Explorer designMode Property Is Not Supported

Article ID: 188864

Article Last Modified on 5/11/2006

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1

This article was previously published under Q188864

SUMMARY

Microsoft Internet Explorer provides a designMode property, which is available on the document object. This property takes one of two values:

On: Prevents script execution and puts the document into edit mode
Off: Standard browser mode

This property is not supported.

MORE INFORMATION

If you want to provide WYSIWYG Dynamic HTML (DHTML) editing functionality, you can make use of the Microsoft DHTML Editing Component, available for download at:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/

The Microsoft DHTML Editing Component allows Web authors and application developers to add HTML editing capabilities to their Web sites and applications. The editing component uses Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) technology to make editing services such as basic HTML formatting, tables, undo/redo, find, and absolute positioning readily available.

REFERENCES

For more information about the DHTML Editing component, please visit the following site:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/

For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

http://support.microsoft.com/iep

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