I'm using Jeditable and jWYSIWYG (via my own jerry-rigged Rails engine) to provide in-place WYSIWYG editing in an application. Recently I've had reports that the HTML mode in the WYSIWYG editor (that is, when we can see and manipulate the actual HTML being generated) is not editable in Chrome (>27 - it works in 26). It works in Safari (tested 6.0.5, 8536.30.1), Firefox (tested 19 and 21) and Opera, all four on Macs. (Let's not speak of IE.) I pulled a Webkit nightly (r151773) and that also shows the problem, suggesting this is a Webkit problem.
This setup works by building both a standard textarea with the HTML, and an iframe with the WYSIWYG content. When we open or close HTML mode, one is hidden (display:none) and the other is shown, depending on which way we're going. It's just that in Chrome, one can't change the content in the textarea. Can't get the cursor in it, can't select text, can't change the contents in the developer tools (?!?) just can't do anything with it.
What could be causing this in Chrome but not Safari, FF or Opera? What should I be looking for in terms of attributes on textarea which might be causing this?
ETA: It looks like this is a bug in Chromium, Webkit, or both. (I opened this Webkit bug, then found this jWYSIWYG issue which references a Chromium bug.) The jWYSIWYG issue suggests a workaround (adding a browser test for Chrome) but it doesn't work for me.
