1514510 - Signature separator is not detected when being indented in HTML code

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

When I have the `-- ` separator in my simple custom HTML signature code, I can define the position of this separator without an issue, as TB then doesn’t add it a second time on top of my signature. So far, so good.

However, below the pre-defined salutation I then placed a `div` around the whole “real” signature in order to paint that part gray. Common standard is to indent everything inside an HTML tag, so I indented that whole `div` content including the `-- ` separator.


Actual results:

With the signature part being indented (either by tabs or spaces), this detection does not work anymore and TB places a superfluous `-- ` separator at the top.


Expected results:

That superfluous `-- ` separator shouldn’t be introduced, as though the HTML code of this separator is indented, the parsed output does not show whitespace in front of the separator. Thus the indented separator should still be detected by other programs – which is why the added seperator is superfluous.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Correct. "-- " is a stone-age separator which must start in the first column, usually in plaintext mail.

There are preferences to suppress the separator:
mail.identity.default.suppress_signature_separator
mail.identity.idNN.suppress_signature_separator
or just type "suppress" (without the quotes) into the search box.