avoid ie contentEditable element to create paragraphs on Enter key

Question

On InternetExplorer, a contentEditable DIV creates a new paragraph (

) each time you press Enter whereas Firefox creates a


Answer 1

Yes it is possible to avoid the insertion of paragraphs by stopping the keydown event first (window.event.stopPropagation();) and then inserting the string by using insert HTML command.

However, IE depends on this divs for setting styles etc. and you will get into trouble using
s.

I suggest you using a project like TinyMCE or other editors and search for an editor which behaves the way you would like, since they have all kinds of workarounds for different browser issues. Perhaps you can find an editor which uses
s...