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A different way of doing something similar, with no code at all:

Copy the following into your browser URL bar: "data:text/html, <html contenteditable>" (without quotation marks)

The whole point of the webapp is also to be able to save. Your proposed alternative is very small and convenient for 'just editing', but you would have to transfer the text written to another editing program to be able to save it.

Ahem ... "File / Save Page As"

Beat me to it. :)

You usually don't want to save a text file as html. You want it as readable text that you can open with any editor, not riddled with <p> like you would end up with if you use a contentEditable.

and that'll work like a WYSIWYG editor whilw I need just plain text (no formatting).... that's why I'm not using contenteditable div, rather using textarea..

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