1777748 - Inline spell-check's red wiggly underline renders overlaps normal underlined text style, which is then hard to see

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[[:nickname]JN]

Attachment: 2022-07-02_00-41.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

I wrote an email that included an underlined word. When so doing I had live spell-checking ('check as you type') enabled.

Actual results:

The spell checker flagged the underlined word. The result was that I could not see that the world was underlined already. See screenshot.

The problem occurs on both Windows and Linux. The screenshot is from Windows.

Expected results:

One should be able to tell whether or not a word the spell-check flags is underlined - was already underlined, by the user.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Yeah, that's not ideal.
To actually check if there's regularly underlined words, user would have to switch off inline spell check or go through each wrong word for correcting/ignoring.

Richard, ideas?
Could we even fix this on our side, or is it Core > DOM:Editor territory?

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Nothing I can do. This needs to go to core.