Open Bug 194983 Opened 22 years ago Updated 5 years ago

composer removes text from html editor that it considers invalid

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Editor
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

People

(Reporter: jjc, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Composer removes text that is typed in in the html source view that it considers invalid. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit a new page in composer 2. Switch to <html> source view 3. add invalid line <p style="text-align: centur">This is text</p> to code (note the mispelling of center.) 4. switch to normal view 5. switch back to <html> source view 6. notice that the style has been changed to style="" Actual Results: The style was removed. Expected Results: Mozilla should have warned that the style was invalid, and not removed it. Mozilla should NEVER remove something that is typed in the html source with out give a warning and a chance to fix it first. Also if you go to undo you will notice that you cannot undo the removal as well. I have had the who style removed several times because of a single letter typo.
-->core I assume we'd have the same behavior if the file had been saved elsewhere and opened into Composer.
Assignee: composer → jfrancis
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Editor: Composer → Editor: Core
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Yes, the same behavior occurs if the html is loaded from a file.
I've had similar problems in the Mozilla 1.72 Mac OS X Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 A comment in the source code between the html and head tags is deleted. It seems Mozilla's Composer really likes to have the head tag immediately beside the html tag, on the same line. I discovered this when editing a document created in another editor/software (Dreamweaver), which uses software-specific comment tags inserted into the page, including one between the <html> and <head> tags. It would be nice to be able to use Mozilla to quickly edit the content of pages, without having it delete parts of the code without asking (even comments).
QA Contact: sujay → editor
Assignee: mozeditor → nobody

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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