1285487 - After reformating a part of an email as "body test", typing at the end of this part will move the caret one line above.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1281664

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[philipp.hessler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160604131506

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open new Message Compose Window.
2. Type a few words (e.g. "Hello Peter,").
3. Hit enter twice.
4. Start a sentence (e.g. "This is a").
5. Mark all three lines and change the paragraph format to "body text" (was originally "paragraph").
6. Continue the sentence (e.g. " Test.").


Actual results:

After clicking at the end of the unfinished the sentence, the caret is positioned correctly. As soon as I start typing, the caret is moved to the line above and the resulting mail looks like this:

Hello Peter,
 Test.
This is a


Expected results:

The caret should not have moved and the mail should look like this:

Hello Peter,

This is a Test.

Comment 1

[philipp.hessler]

This bug can still be reproduced in the nightly build of the 50 branch from 7th July 2016.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

We know this problem, it has already been reported and analysed in bug 1281664.