427523 - contentEditable does not executeCommand on clicking a button that is outside the contentEditable (the contentEditable loses focus)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 421640

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Piotr Gabryjeluk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031318 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031318 Firefox/3.0b4

Having:
 - div that has contentEditable attribute set to true
 - set of buttons that binds to executeCommand(cmd, null, null)
  - cmd can be 'bold' f.e.

The div allows user to enter text, but clicking on button makes the div lose focus and formatting is not applied.

When binding the executeCommand to the div (onclick f.e.) the behaviour is correct.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/contenteditable.htm
2. Edit the content of the editable div.
3. Try to bold/italic/underline anything.
Actual Results:  
Clicking the bold/underline button does not work.

Expected Results:  
Selected on the contentEditable div text should be bolded/underlined.

Seems like this is strictly connected with the div loosing focus.

Comment 1

[Piotr Gabryjeluk]

On pointed demo, when changing onclick event to onmousedown, the formatting seems to work, but the selection that was made is lost.