236210 - Editor: Midas - could tables with no border display a ghost border ?

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement)

Description

[osavill]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040301

In both IE and Mozilla inserting and editing a table with no border is a little
fraught ! The table is added to the editable container but with no border you
have to click around some to locate a cell within it. From then on editing
becomes straight forward. Would it be possible, as with the main Composer
editor, to have a thin ghost border ?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bernd]

move unconfirmed midas bugs

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[osavill]

Having gone through the Mozilla source I have come up with a work around. This 
feature would still be nice to have but can be fixed since there is a work 
around. 

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

This can be achieved just adding this css to the page being edited:

TABLE[border="0"], TABLE[border="0"] TD, TABLE[border="0"] TH,
TABLE:not([border]), TABLE:not([border]) TD, TABLE:not([border]) TH
{
	border: 1px dotted #d3d3d3;
}

So I see no reason to make this change to gecko (and then create problems for those that prefer to don't see the fake borders)

I suggest resolve the bug as WorksForMe.

Comment 5

[osavill]

Yes, I had found this. Had to trawl the editor code in Mozilla source to find out how Composer does it ! My knowledge of CSS isn't that good !! However, I would add that applying it to the actual page being edited may not work. Adding it to the page which contains the designMode <iframe> will not work, even if it is applied directly to the <iframe>. Adding it as a style to the HTML content within the <iframe> results in the published page having an innappropriate style. The best way I have found is to embed the style into the <ifame>'s contentWindow document. 

Also this approach doesn't work in IE which is no bad thing. designMode has all the makings of a nice web app which could differentiate Gecko browsers from IE in that Gecko browsers could do designMode properly. I think M$ have given up on this feature and assume that people will use ActiveX instead.

Comment 6

[Alfonso Martinez]

Yes, those CSS rules won't be undestood by IE, maybe IE 7 will be better, but for now you must use a Behaviour to set a runTimeStyle.

As I said in another bugs there are some open source editors based upon ContentEditable that make it easy for a web developer to use this function in a cross-browser way and providing many extras beyond the basic editing functionality.

Verified.