247276 - problem with generated paragraph in composer, causes <> and </> to be inserted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244392

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Massimo Maria Ghisalberti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

Code generated by composer is wrong in some use of formatting paragraphs

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ma three lines of text in composer
2.select all and apply paragraph formatting
3.backspace the second line
4.backspace the third line
5. view generated code

Actual Results:  
<>aaaaa<br>
aaaaa</>aaaaa

Expected Results:  
<p>
aaaaa<br>
aaaaa<br>
aaaaa<br>
</p>

this problem in:
all browser/editor based on mozilla 1.7rc

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Yes, I also see this problem with rv:1.8a2 Gecko/20040613, but I'm not sure this
bug is Severity: Critical (no crash or loss of data), related to bug 103950?

Comment 2

[timeless]

*** Bug 251466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

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

mscott, I think we'd want this fixed before tbird 1.0

Comment 4

[Tyson]

Good to see others are running into this as well. There is another example of
the bug here:  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244392     Bug #244392

Comment 5

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

I'm able to reproduce this problem with the steps in the bug report.

here's a simplified set of steps:

1)  compose a new html mail
2)  in the body, type "aaaaa", hit return, type "aaaaa"
3)  select all
4)  do "Format | Paragraph | Paragraph"
5)  put the cursor at the start of the second line
6)  hit backspace
7)  save as draft and view the html source of the draft

you'll get

<>aaaaa<br>
aaaaa</>

mscott, I hit this frequently enough to think it should block aviary 1.0.  

Comment 6

[timeless]

*** Bug 254748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244392 ***