1198292 - Can't delete smiley face with backspace key

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Tom Williams]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150819100530

Steps to reproduce:

1)  Compose a new message
2)  Insert a smiley face
3)  Use the backspace key to delete it




Actual results:

The smiley face wasn't deleted.


Expected results:

The smiley face should have been deleted.

Comment 1

[Tom Williams]

I've found these other bug reports:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77795
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118912

but they are old and resolved.  I think a regression has occurred.  I've encountered this in Thunderbird on Linux and Windows 7.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks Tom indeed smileys are very hard to delete with backspace, sometimes impossible. Also cursor behavior around and inserting spaces after smiley is irregular.
We have a number of other bugs which also point to the fact that there's something wrong with the underlying DOM / interaction with editor.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%3Athun%2Cmailn%20smil&list_id=12510361

Select all, Insert > HTML shows that there's a superfluous <span> element which might cause these problems:

Typing "foo[space][Smiley][space]bar" results in this HTML source:

foo <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-)  </span></span>bar<br>

More analysis in bug 182941.

Comment 4

[u534134]

This bug continue to be present on new version 68 :(