Closed Bug 375598 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Background styling of HTML MIME parts are applied to entire message

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76804

People

(Reporter: crow, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Build Identifier: 2.0pre (20070327) When viewing a multipart-mixed message that has an HTML MIME part that specifies some styling for the background (e.g. <body bgcolor="red">), the style is applied to the entire message window and not just the portion of the message window displaying the HTML part. The following email messages shows the behavior: From: joe@example.com To: joe@example.com Subject: Test Message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----" ------ Content-Type: text/plain Plain Text MIME Part This is a plain text MIME part and should not have a red background. ------ Content-Type: text/html <body bgcolor="red"> <h1>HTML MIME Part</h1> <p>This is an HTML content part with a red background.</p> </body> ------ While I am reporting this against TB 2.0pre, I have seen it in previous versions, too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a way to send your self the mail message above (on a UNIX system, place it into a file and run "sendmail user@domain.com < file" where user@domain.com is your email address. 2. View the message in Thunderbird. Actual Results: The text portion of the email has a red background. Expected Results: Only the html portion of the email should have a red background. The text portion should be whatever it would for a plain text email.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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