255983 - Impossible to edit 1 cell table when there is a list in it

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Manuel Reimer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

It seems to be impossible to edit an table if you create a list in it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert a new table with one col and one row in a new composer document
2. enter one newline in the table cell (for any reason this is needed to get an
list into an table, but this would be another bug...)
3. Now click on one of the "create list" buttons on the edit-toolbar in composer
4. Remove the newline created in Step 2 that the only thin in the table is the
one list item
Actual Results:  
If you now right click on the table somewhere, then you only have "list
properties" in the context menu. You can't access the table properties.

Expected Results:  
If you right click on the table, then the table preferences should be accessible

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

> If you now right click on the table somewhere, then you only have "list
properties" in the context menu.

That's because the current element in "writing mode" in the DOM tree is the
list. The trick for the user is to be able to pass the "writing mode" status to
the element chosen by the user.

Try this:
1- View/Show-Hide/Status Bar should be checked
2- Right-click in the status bar the element's node which you want to access the
properties
3- Choose Advanced Properties

or 

2- Click in the status bar the element's node which you want to access the
properties: the node containment hierarchy gets truncated on the status bar
3- then right-click anywhere in the table cell and the properties of the element
you chose in step 2 will be shown in the list of commands of the context-menu

All this works while in HTML Tags editing mode and in Normal editing mode.

Mozilla 1.8a3 build 2004081709 under XP Pro here.

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

Also working for me is (after step 4):
a1- Left click anywhere in the table; 
a2- Table/Table Properties... brings up the Table Properties... dialog box

b1- Left click anywhere in the table;
b2- Table/Select -> Table (The table gets selected/highlighted)
b3- Right-click anywhere in the table and the Table Properties... menuitem is in
the contextmenu

Again, the important matter is to first select correctly the table.

Comment 3

[Alex Eng]

Cannot reproduce on Mozilla 1.8a3 build 2004081709
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

Reporter: If you are no longer seeing this issue, please let us know so that we
can close this bug.  If you are still seeing this problem, please provide
additional information so that we can reliably reproduce it. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Gérard Talbot]

Manuel, we have not heard from you regarding alternate methods to select a
table. I'm resolving this as
WORKSFORME