1082531 - html is escaped when inserted from HTML inspector

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
(also in Fx32)
1/ right click on any piece of text on a page and edit the text in the html tree in devtools
2/ add some html, for example a <br> in a sentence

expected result:
A line break is inserted (or any other html tag you added)
examle: "We've made a guess <br>at your operating system and platform."

actual result:
The html tag inserted is escaped which means that the page now *displays* the html tag:
"We've made a guess &lt;br&gt;at your operating system and platform."

It works in Firebug. Chrome dev tools behave like Firefox dev tools but I can't imagine a situation in which somebody would want to insert escaped html on a page via the built in devtools therefore I consider it as a bug.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Moving to the inspector component for triage.

Comment 2

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

What you want to do here can be achieved using the "Edit as HTML" feature from the context menu.
When double clicking on a text node, it's fair to say the user wants to edit text and not markup.