Why would one choose an editable DIV over an INPUT or TEXTAREA
There are several questions about asking how to make a div editable. However one could just use a textarea or input field and make those disabled or readonly. I would guess this would yield better semantics. Even the example given at MDN looks like a plain old input field to me. So why would I use an editable div? What are its advantages over textareas and input fields? I just had a look at an example I found in the tag wiki contenteditable . Is the advantage, that I can use markup inside an editable div, but not inside a textarea or an input field? Wouldn't it then be more semantically