278667 - Link Color Settings in "Page Colors and Background" do not effect color of links in composition window

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Alex]

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

In a composition window of Thunderbird 1.0, settings in "Page Colors and
Background" setted for the message do not effect the output of links in the
previewed message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new message.
2. In the composition window, go to Format -> Page Colors and Background
3. Choose a link, active link, and visited link other than the defaults
4. Create a hyperlink in the message body 

Actual Results:  
Hyperlink appears in the global default color (i.e. blue for unvisited link)

Expected Results:  
Hyperlink appears in the color specified.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In a composition window of Thunderbird 1.0, settings in "Page Colors and
> Background" setted for the message do not effect the output of links in the
> previewed message.

By "previewed" I assume you mean the message as shown in the composition window. 
That is true; reproduced with TB 1.0 and Moz 1.8a6-0105, Win2K.  Odd that I 
couldn't find a dupe, this seems a pretty easy symptom to notice.

Comment 2

[(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 4

[buovjaga]

Still confirmed.

Thunderbird 52.1.0 (32-bit)
Windows 7 64-bit