458182 - When parentNode of a contentEditable is an <a> element, backspace is disabled.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439808

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Lee McDermott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080908055621 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080908055621 Minefield/3.1b1pre

I have contentEditables on a webpage that are like so:

<a href="file.html"><span contentEditable="true">Editable Content</span></a>

For some reason, the backspace and delete keys are disabled. This problem is fixed if I remove the href attribute, but only in the source. Dynamically removing it through JavaScript is ineffective at fixing this problem.

Also, the contentEditable is enabled via JavaScript.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Focus a contentEditable with <a href="blah"> as parent
2. Press backspace key
3.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #2

It seems to work if there's no block ancestors.

Comment 3

[smaxein]

This bug is probably related/identical to Bug 454191 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454191, "del and backspace don't work on contenteditable nested inline nodes")