1319907 - Changing location in editor doesn't preserve the font when returning to end of text/line in Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1348750

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.87 Safari/537.36 OPR/41.0.2353.56

Steps to reproduce:

I am writing an e-mail in HTML format (new, reply, forward). The default font is set to a fixed width font (Lucida Console). The message contains a plain text signature. When typing at the initial cursor position the default font is used.


Actual results:

When moving the cursor one line down the font setting switches to "Variable Width".


Expected results:

The default font should be applied to all areas of the message, which are not quoted; especially the body and the signature.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

When I read your comment in the other bug, I knew that you would report this problem ;-)

Sadly, we can't and we won't fix it. Please read bug 1270803 comment #1. Note that others have complained, see duplicates of bug 1270803.

As for the signature: Don't use a plaintext signature. Use a HTML signature and set the font in the HTML.

Comment 2

[mozilla]

It would have saved time and effort for both of us, if you wrote that answer in the first place. The HTML mail composition is a real disgrace, guess I will switch back to plain text.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to mozilla from comment #2)
> It would have saved time and effort for both of us, if you wrote that answer
> in the first place.
Sorry, in bug 1159834 comment #5 you were referring to a different problem. Out of experience I was guessing what you could have meant. You could have saved us time and effort by reporting the correct problem or finding that your problem was in fact covered elsewhere.

> The HTML mail composition is a real disgrace, guess I will switch back to plain text.
It's not, but it has its limitations. You have to have some grasp of HTML to use it to your best advantage. My add-on, ThunderHTMLedit, is also useful. There you can see what's happening behind the scenes.