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Remove designMode inheritance from ancestors

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 43)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Change the initial value of document.designMode from "inherit" to "off" and remove support for "inherit".

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#making-entire-documents-editable:-the-designmode-idl-attribute
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/469978

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