102195 - Allow tags to be deleted without destroying the data in the tags in "Show all Tags" view

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173319

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement)

Description

[TucsonTester2]

Build ID: 20010924

Composer should allow users to delete tags in the "Show all Tags" view without
destroying what is wrapped in the tags.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open composer
2.Click on the left alignment button on the toolbar
3.Type in some text
4.Switch to "Show all Tags" view
5.Click on the <div> tag and hit the delete key

Actual Results:
The div tag will be deleted, but along with the text.

Expected Results:
I would expect to be able to delete tags in show all tags mode without
destroying the data wrapped in the tags.  This would be especially be useful for
the left align div tag, there is no way to get rid of it other than deleting it
in the HTML source.  (It doesn't hurt anything being there but does clutter up
the screen if you've decided to change alignment a number of times.)

Comment 1

[michael wendell]

Confirmed

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

I definitely agree with reporter ; this can be sometimes bloody annoying.

Comment 3

[Joe Francis]

This would require a whole can of worms.  For now and forseeable future, clicking 
on a tag in "show tags" mode selects the entire element, contents and all, and 
thus deleting it will behave as you describe.  Otherwise, we get into a world 
where people can delete <ul> but leave the <li>, etc.

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

No, I don't think it is really difficult. We already have in code all we need
to make a pseudo-dtd control on the relationship the new parent node
and the content nodes of the "exploded" element.

And this is a real blocker for some authoring cases.

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

I totally disagree. The whole point of "show all tags" mode is to aid in selecting
content of a particular element *exactly* by clicking on the yellow tag.
If you want to delete just the "tag", use html source.
I could see having this request as an additional feature, but that would be a
very low priority in the short term.

Comment 6

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

cmanske : see DW4 ; open a document and put the caret inside an element ; click
with right-button on the tag in hierarchy bar at the bottom of document's view.
Select "Remove tag".

Comment 7

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

this is now covered by the work done in bug 173319.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173319 ***

Comment 8

[sujay]

verified.