How to change behavior of contenteditable blocks after on enter pressed in various browsers
When pressing enter in <div contenteditable="true"> </div> in firefox <br /> is produced - that's ok. But in Chrome or IE a new <div> or <p> is created. What should I do to make Chrome and IE behave like Firefox .
Answer
As Douglas said earlier, browsers try to clone previous tag when customer starts a new paragraph on an editable page. The discrepancy occurs when browser has nothing to depart from - e.g. when initially the page body is empty. In this case different browsers behave differently: IE starts to wrap every string into <p> tag, Chrome wraps each line in <div>.
To increase cross-browser experience, WebKit developers have introduced the DefaultParagraphSeparator command. You can use the following JavaScript on page loading for Chrome to change default paragraph separator to <p> tag:
document.execCommand('defaultParagraphSeparator', false, 'p');