// Get IE or Edge browser version
var isIEOrEdge = detectIE();
if (isIEOrEdge) {
let editables = document.querySelectorAll('.kb-editable');
for (let i = 0; i < editables.length; i++) {
editables[i].classList.add('kb-edge');
}
}
// this is the only function that is actually needed if the double IE\Edge caret doesn't bother you
function getFocus(id) {
document.getElementById(id).focus();
}
/* VERY OPTIONAL :-) */
/**
* detect IE
* returns version of IE or false, if browser is not Internet Explorer
*/
function detectIE() {
var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;
// Test values; Uncomment to check result …
// IE 10
// ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)';
// IE 11
// ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko';
// Edge 12 (Spartan)
// ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0';
// Edge 13
// ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10586';
var msie = ua.indexOf('MSIE ');
if (msie > 0) {
// IE 10 or older => return version number
return parseInt(ua.substring(msie + 5, ua.indexOf('.', msie)), 10);
}
var trident = ua.indexOf('Trident/');
if (trident > 0) {
// IE 11 => return version number
var rv = ua.indexOf('rv:');
return parseInt(ua.substring(rv + 3, ua.indexOf('.', rv)), 10);
}
var edge = ua.indexOf('Edge/');
if (edge > 0) {
// Edge (IE 12+) => return version number
return parseInt(ua.substring(edge + 5, ua.indexOf('.', edge)), 10);
}
// other browser
return false;
}
.kb-editable {
--bg-color: #D3D3D3;
--placeholder-color: grey;
--text-color: black;
--border-color: transparent;
--padding: 5px;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: var(--bg-color);
position: relative;
align-items: start;
font-family: 'Anonymous Pro', monospace;
font-size: 14px;
overflow-y: auto;
display: inline-block;
cursor: text;
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
padding: var(--padding);
}
.kb-editable [contenteditable="true"] {
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
background: var(--bg-color);
color: var(--text-color);
outline: none;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
/* deal with long words (break them to multiple lines) */
word-wrap: break-word;
}
.kb-editable .kb-placeholder {
position: absolute;
top: var(--padding);
bottom: var(--padding);
left: var(--padding);
right: var(--padding);
color: var(--placeholder-color);
}
/* used for non-chrome to hide original caret on empty state */
[contenteditable="true"]:focus:empty {
color: transparent;
text-shadow: 0 0 0 black;
}
.kb-editable:not(.kb-edge) [contenteditable="true"]:focus:empty~.kb-placeholder:before {
content: "|";
color: var(--text-color);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
animation: 1s blink step-end infinite;
caret-color: transparent;
}
@keyframes blink {
from,
to {
color: transparent;
}
50% {
color: black;
}
}
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Anonymous+Pro" rel="stylesheet">
<div class="kb-editable" onclick="getFocus('black')">
<div contenteditable="true" id="black"></div>
<span class="kb-placeholder">I'm a placeholder</span>
</div>
<div class="kb-editable" onclick="getFocus('white')" style="--bg-color: white; --border-color: black">
<div contenteditable="true" id="white"></div>
<span class="kb-placeholder">I'm the white version!</span>
</div>