179062 - If I paste some formatted text (e.a. richtext) in composer during editing a plain text message the pasted text isn't plain

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Willem van Duijn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021107
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021107

An exampel: I'm composing a plaintext message (Options -> format -> "Plain text
Only") and I past some text I got from a website, the text I just pasted isn't
showed as plain text (but holds the markup it had from the website). When I sent
the message it is sent correctly, only during composing it is showed wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In mail/news press compose
2. Options -> format -> "Plain text Only"
3. Copy/Paste some formatted text

Actual Results:  
The pasted text isn't showned as plain text

Expected Results:  
Show it as plain text

none

Comment 1

[kinmoz]

--> [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Joe Francis]

The menu item referred to does not affect the compose window.  It only affects 
how the message is sent (thus you observe that it is indeed sent as plaintext).

If you want the composition window to be aplaintext editor itself, you must go to 
your "Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings" and uncheck the "Compose Messages in 
HTML Format" checkbox in the very first preference panel for your mail account.

I admit this is confusing.  A better UI here would be nice.

Comment 3

[sujay]

verified.