249909 - Italics command doesn't recognize emphasis

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Matthew Schultz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Although mozilla's embedded editor doesn't write emphasis tags for italics, it
refuses to manipulate them as well to at least undo the emphasis (italics). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm
2. Highlight preloaded word
3. Click the I (italics) button

Actual Results:  
Italics cannot be discarded if using emphasis tags.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to discard italics if using the emphasis tags.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I see this too on LInux 2004091107
I did notice STRONG/bold and I/italics works fine.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Matthew Schultz]

Um, let me see, yup this is still a bug.  Just because it's old, it doesn't mean
it's fixed.  Tested with fckeditor (fckeditor.net) and it still can't manipulate
emphasis tags (build 20050908 Firefox 1.5 Beta and 20050910 Seamonkey 1.0a).

Comment 4

[Matthew Schultz]

I just tested on Firefox 1.5 (build 20051111) and it is still broken.  I suppose the only workaround for this since it seems unlikely this bug will ever get fixed would be to make the editors do a search for em tags and replace them with i tags so Gecko browsers would be able to manipulate the italics text.

Comment 5

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

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.