127551 - Bugzilla 'feature' relies on bug in some browsers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11901

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Shanks]

When displaying individual bugs in the usual way (like you're reading this) the contents of the bug has <pre></pre> tags around it. This works for bugs submitted with IE (and maybe others) because they mistakenly submits carriage returns with their textarea field's contents. Only if I type a carriage return
such as this
should it get submitted. When the browser (correctly) displays the bug's contents, in accordance with the <pre> tags, it extends the window indefinitely to accommodate.

The purpose of this bug is to get you to remove the <pre> tags by default.
You could incorporate into the parsing mechanism some sort of detection for UBBCode-like tags such as [code] [/code] (or whatever) for cases where the user actually wants preformatted text.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Your statement that this relies on a "bug" is not correct - it relies on
wrap="hard", a textarea attribute supported by IE and NS but not by other
browsers.

The big debate about this issue is going on over in bug 11901 (yes, it's been
going on for that long.) I suggest you head over there and read all about why
this is such a tricky issue :-)

Gerv

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11901 ***