269956 - cursor disappears when editing using backspace key while composing a message

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[R Ewing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When composing a message and using the backspace key to delete or edit; the
cursor disappears and invisibly goes to the top left of the message window and
begins writing letters in reverse oreder; e.g., "time" would be written as
"emit".  Other times, when I notice the cursor as disappeared, I can show it by
clicking the left mouse button at the location I want the cursor to be.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

HTML mail composition, I presume.

Have you done anything to set up for right-to-left composition (typically used 
for Arabic or Hebrew)?  Are you using templates?  Replying to a message?

Try this: start a message composition, type a character, then save the message 
as a draft.  Go the Drafts folder, select the message, and from the menus select 
View|Message Source.

In the window, you'll see the HTML in place for the message.  Do any of the tags 
have   dir=rtl  as an attribute?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter => Invalid