1272450 - insertion of line breaks and blanks to <a href title=""> destroys tooltip view

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Bill]

Attachment: illustration of the indentation applied to title attribute

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open up an existing HTML file having <a href title="text with multiple words"> element.


Actual results:

Composer reformatted the text inside the title attribute of the <a href> element to achieve equal indentation in the HTML source, but this is wrong, because when viewed in Chrome the title attribute text now has extraneous spaces due to the extraneous indentation introduced by Composer.


Expected results:

Composer should not try to "pretty-print" the text of attributes of <a href> elements.  Spaces introduced to achieve a nice indentation in the HTML source are interpreted as significant by other browsers, so this changes the appearance of the hover-over text.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: test document

Effect is REPRODUCIBLE with  English SeaMonkey 2.45a1  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:48.0)  Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0 Build 20160308001946  (Default Classic Theme)  on German WIN7 64bit
1. Open attached document in Browser and move mouse pointer to text contents
   » 2 lines tooltip shown
2. Open attached document in Composer, add trailing blank, save, do Preview
   and in Browser  move mouse pointer to text contents
   » 3 lines tooltip shown with strange indent for lines 2, 3

I will do some more research later.

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Tooltip-view in thunderbird

Same problem in Thunderbird, so probably a CORE problem