294164 - Mail Compose default to inserting paragraphs on Enter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330891

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Ilya Konstantinov]

As a follow-up to bug 92686:
The behavior of Mail Compose should be changed so that Enter starts a new
block-level element instead of inserting a BR.
(The code to facilitate this was already commited to editor in bug 92686.)

Only block level elements (e.g. DIV, P) may have BiDi Paragraph direction in
HTML. Paragraph direction is an important property of BiDi text in documents and
email correspondense.

This behavior is also the de-facto standard.
For example, Outlook Express inserts DIVs on Enter and BRs on Shift-Enter. By
inserting DIVs instead of Ps, they avoid the inherent top/bottom-margin of Ps.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

I don't have a tree for Thunderbird.  You should be able to do whichever
behavior you prefer by making the appropriate call to the editor (wherever you
do editor initialization); something like:
  htmleditor.returnInParagraphCreatesNewParagraph = false;