Open Bug 1422178 Opened 8 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Inspector removes whitespace in comments

Categories

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Inspector
Version:
58 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: shobson, Unassigned)

References

Details

Some sites include ASCII art in the body of their HTML hidden by comments. Example: https://www.mozilla.org/ When viewing source you can see the ASCII art clearly but when viewing the comment in the Inspector the whitespace is removed and the ASCII art becomes random characters.
Thanks for filing Stephanie. It looks like it's a simple case of white-space:pre; in CSS. But I'm not sure what the implications of changing this will be yet. I think the code is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7f45cb7cc0229398fc99849bdc150cb6462d6966/devtools/client/inspector/markup/views/text-editor.js#70-85 It is used for both simple text nodes and comment nodes. I think in some cases we cut down these nodes if the content is too long. So we'll need to keep that in mind when working on this bug.
Priority: -- → P3
Product: Firefox → DevTools
Severity: normal → S3
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