107754 - Can't insert highlighted link into email composer msg body

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 108196

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Tom]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011030
BuildID:    2001103021

Can't insert previously highlighted links into message body of email composer.
Normal link insertion works fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mail composer and type url into message body
2. Highlight url
3. Select "Insert -> Link" from menu
4. Click OK

Actual Results:  Highlighted url in message body should appear as link

Expected Results:  Highlighted url in message body does not appear as link

First noticed in build 2001103021. Build 2001102910 is OK.

Comment 1

[Tom]

Oops, make that:

Actual Results:  Highlighted url in message body does not appear as link

Expected Results:  Highlighted url in message body appears as link

Comment 2

[Sheela Ravindran]

confirming the bug-2001-10-31-06 win98
I did the same steps reported here in 4.x.  I see that we do not prefill the
link in the dlg in 4.x. We consider the highlighted url as link text. After you
type the same url as link in the text box then we convert this to appear as a link

6.x is not doing that. I deleted the prefilled text box and entered again but it
did not convert the text into a link.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to editor core

Comment 4

[Nick Atkins]

Random comment:  I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed.  It's a really annoying
thing to create a link and not see a link as you never know if it actually
worked or not.  You always have to check it worked in Drafts or (heaven forbid)
in Sent.

Comment 5

[sujay]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108196 ***

Comment 6

[sujay]

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