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I recently came across an article where if you enter 

data:text/html,%20<html contenteditable>

into the address bar of a browser that supports HTML5, you can type in the window.
I managed to figure out that with this you can basically write html in the address bar (it would be rather cumbersome) but I do not understand how or why it works. What are the other functionalities of this command?

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  • could you please point to the article you refer?
    – gnat
    Commented Sep 12, 2014 at 13:10

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The first part - data:text/html - is a Data URI that tells the browser that what follows is html, and it should parse it.

The second part - <html contenteditable> - is the actual html, an editable html element. In HTML5 you can make any element editable with the contentEditable attribute.

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