If you remove the `<br>` the cursor appears outside of the container. I believe this `<br>` is needed for contentEditable to behave correctly. Suboptimal markup has always been a symptom of using contentEditable in my experience. We could a) remove the `<br>` and add some hacks to make it display right. b) switch to textarea solution, which involves its own quirks if you want to put images "in it" c) leave it be

![image](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/211047/446284/4aad4276-b1d2-11e2-8ff3-ab90e3cc4e54.png)

Let me know if I'm missing something, the behavior is pretty weird so I may not be 100% clear on what causes it.