Bug 147406

Summary:

There is no way to disable/control the default toolbar shown for selected text by 3rd party editors

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Wiktor Walc <w.walc>

Component:

HTML Editing

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

Normal

CC:

enrica, jond, pablo.platt

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

iPhone / iPad

OS:

iOS 8.2

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Unwanted toolbar.	none

Description Wiktor Walc 2015-07-29 09:02:59 PDT

Created attachment 257749 [details]
Unwanted toolbar.

See the following links with developers trying to use their own editor using contenteditable and having troubles with the "native" toolbar that is placed on top of contenteditable and that hides the toolbar provided by the 3rd party WYSIWYG editor.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22693315/contenteditable-on-ios-control-prevent-selection-toolbar
http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/13511

Note that in case of CKEditor, the problem is not only in the confusion caused by another toolbar overlaying the toolbar provided by CKEditor, but also with some features that should not be included in the toolbar offered by the native browser.
For example in case of CKEditor, it is possible to configure it to not accept e..g <strong>/<b> elements. In such case the Bold/Italic/Underline menu available for the end user is introducing additional confusion.