Guides

Rich Text Editor Guides

Answers to the problems you hit when you build editing on top of contenteditable: lost selections, toolbar focus, pasted HTML and framework lifecycles. Every guide explains the browser behaviour behind the bug, gives a fix you can copy into plain JavaScript, React, Vue or Svelte, and shows how Scribe Editor handles it.

Keep contenteditable selection when clicking a toolbar button

Why clicking a toolbar button clears the selection in a contenteditable editor, and the mousedown preventDefault + saved Range fix.

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