156722 - Backspace deletes text formatting

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140357

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020702
BuildID:    2002070203

When I select formatting in Composer or HTML MailCompose, and then backspace to
the beginning of the document, the formatting is lost.  I have to reselect all
sizes, bold print, etc.  This also occurs if I use the cursor to select a point
to begin typing (I have to highlight some already formatted text and then type
from there).
  I don't know if this is a bug or not...  but I find it quite annoying.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select formatting in Composer
2a. Backspace so no text is remaining
or
2b. Use mouse cursor to select point to begin typing


Actual Results:  In 2a, all the formatting I selected was lost.
In 2b, all previously entered text was formatted, but all new text was not
formatted.

Expected Results:  Formatting should have been preserved.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->jfrancis (is this a dupe?)

Comment 2

[Joe Francis]

The days of having a half dozen milestones out in front of us to divide bugs 
between seem to be gone, though I dont know why.  Lumping everything together as 
far out as I can.  I'll pull back things that I am working on as I go.

Comment 3

[Syd Logan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140357 ***

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified.