1438358 - Cannot use the backspace key to delete text on the text editors

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Vijay]

Attachment: TNAV-21256 FF issue.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.167 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Bring up the following test page - https://jsfiddle.net/1jxqmx1a/2/
1. Click Set Content button.
2. Click Alert Content button and note that content is a space followed by a BR tag.
3. Click Alert Length button and note that content length is 5.
4. Click inside editor and try to backspace/delete to delete content. You cannot.
5. Click Alert Content button and note that content is a space followed by a BR tag.
6. Click Alert Length button and note that content length is 5.
7. Click inside editor then press ctrl+a to select all content.
8. Press delete key to delete content (note: you cannot tell that any content is selected.)
9. Click Alert Content button and note that content is empty.
10. Click Alert Length button and note that content length is 4.


Actual results:

The content length still shows as 4


Expected results:

The content length should have been 0

Comment 1

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

Although you test this on ESR52, could you reproduce this on the latest Nightly (from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#nightly)?

Comment 2

[Vijay]

Hello,

Yes, I can reproduce this on the nightly as well.

Comment 3

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

editor keeps <br> element when using contenteditable.  It is like design issue.

Comment 4

[Vijay]

Hi, Any update on this?