451076 - Background color lost doing a reply or forward

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[John T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11

A message with a nonwhite background that I have received displays ok, but when trying to reply or forward it, the background color is reset to white. This problem previously existed when opening a message in the draft or template folder, but test messages in those folders opened OK. A test message with color background displayed OK in the Sent folder and in the Inbox after receiving it. But trying to edit and forward or reply to the test message results in background being set to white.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a message with a colored background
2. Send and receive it into your Inbox
3. Open the message in your Inbox
4. Open a reply-to or forward-to edit window
Actual Results:  
The text color is preserved but not the background color.

Expected Results:  
Both the text and background color should have been retained for editing as a reply or forward.

These bugs pertaining to background color may be related, maybe not, listed for ready reference.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234354
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429515
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436109
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424016

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John T, do you see this issue with seamonkey v2?

Comment 2

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Can confirm it with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101206 Firefox/4.0b8pre SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre so I'm not sure if that is a bug or not.