210316 - Can't format text pasted into mail composition when copying from browser window.

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Geoff King]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

When I copied bold text from a newly created webpage (composer) into mozilla
mail, the bold text could not be removed.  formatting added then removed while
in mozilla mail does work.

See steps below as example.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  copy some text from ex. http://24.165.112.247/2003ADA/index.html
2.  paste into new mail message
3.  try to remove bold formatting by buttons or menus

Actual Results:  
bold format remains when it should have been un-bolded. 

Expected Results:  
the bold text should be re-formatted as chosen in the mozilla mail window.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The text at that website is pasted into a span, such as:
  <span style="font-weight: bold;">paste text</span>

Selecting a subset of that and pressing the Bold formatting button puts the 
selection into Bold tags:
  <span style="font-weight: bold;">paste <b>text</b></span>

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

From investigating bug 189155, I discover that the original formatting can be 
removed with Ctrl-Shift-Y, then new formatting can be added as desired.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 189717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

It's possible the fix for bug 176709 (on trunk [1.5a] builds since 0701) 
addresses this problem.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 7

[Al]

Same as bug 428096?