253222 - inline style properties lost when open Advanced Property Editor twice or more

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Fredrik Wendt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040722 Galeon/1.3.16 (Debian package 1.3.16-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714

Build ID: 2004071405

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start composing a new e-mail, put caret in body.
2. Choose Format -> Page Colors and Background.
3. Click the Advanced Edit-button.
4. Switch tab to Inline Style.
5. Enter property "background", value
"url(http://www.linknet.se/images/e-postbakgrund.gif) #fff no-repeat fixed center".
6. Click OK button.
7. Click Advanced Edit.
8a. (HTML attribute background now has the same value as CSS property
background-image. As a side note, there should be a way to having this property
NOT set, since I'd like GUI MUAs that don't support CSS showing a white
background only. Displaying the image at top left corner, possibly repeated,
would really make a bad impression on the recipient.)
8b. Switch to Inline Style and notice that -x-background-x-position (and
...-y-pos...) properties are set.
9. Press OK
10. Press Advaned Edit, switch to the Inline Style tab.
Actual Results:  
Inline Style properties -x-background-[x|y]-position are lost.
CSS property 'background-position: center center' was previously rewritten into
these two properties.

Expected Results:  
Two-fold:
A) background-position property to be kept as is
B) -x-background-x-position property should not be lost, nor should
-x-background-y-position

There's no workaround but to enter the same property over and over, which some
might consider a workaround, other won't => I'm setting severity to Normal

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040726

This bug also happens in Composer; CC'ing Daniel.

See also bug 192217, bug 199000.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 8a. (HTML attribute background now has the same value as CSS property
> background-image. As a side note, there should be a way to having this
> property NOT set, since I'd like GUI MUAs that don't support CSS showing a
> white background only. Displaying the image at top left corner, possibly
> repeated, would really make a bad impression on the recipient.)

This is a separate issue, and should get its own bug.  (See also bug 234252.)

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: Other inline styles lost with repeated edits

margin-left inline styles are also lost if any other attribute is changed.
Demo:
 paste the attached html into a message composition.
 double click on the division which contains the text to bring up advanced edit

 change the top px position, and the margin-left attribute is lost

Comment 4

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Forgot to state that the above problem  exists in Thunderbird
version 0.7+ (20040722) but probably also in Moz Mail/News
Added mscott as cc

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

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Symptoms persist in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032702 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2008032702

Comment 7

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Moving from wanted‑thunderbird3.0a1? flag to wanted‑thunderbird3.0a2? flag since code for Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 has been frozen.