Force IE contentEditable element to create line breaks on Enter key, without breaking Undo

Question

On Internet Explorer, a contentEditable DIV creates a new paragraph (

) each time you press Enter whereas Firefox creates a
<

Answer 1

Consider using <span contenteditable="true"></span> when using Internet Explorer. You may not want to do this with Chrome because the focus looks funny. You will probably want to implement your own onfocus and onblur code.