498039 - firefox's spell checker does not work with wordpress's tinymce editor

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Fabian T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 GTB5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 GTB5

In wordpress's Add Post page, only the first word in the field is checked by Firefox's spell checker. I misspelled the first word and it gets underlined red, but from the 2nd word on, it does not get checked. Note that this happens only for the Visual tab and not HTML tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Wordpress (I'm running 2.8, latest stable build)
2. Add New post
3. Make sure that you're on the Visual tab
4. Type a misspelled word and press space and see it get underlined. 
5. Do the same for the 2nd word and watch as nothing happen.
Actual Results:  
First word gets underlined, 2nd onwards does not.

Expected Results:  
It should have underlined ALL misspelled word.

Posted for help here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278409

And another user confirmed it's a Firefox bug.

Plus I used Safari and it underlines ALL misspelled word, every time without fail.

Comment 1

[u88484]

Could you make a reduced test case and attach it here?

Comment 2

[Fabian T]

What's a reduced test case?

Comment 3

[u88484]

Reduced testcase as in find the source of the page and reduce the coding as far as possible (perferably where just the text input box shows and nothing else).  This helps so the devs can easily pinpoint the problem area and not have to sift through hundreds of lines of HTML/JS to try and figure out what is going on.

Comment 4

[Fabian T]

Great I'll do it ASAP and paste it as a comment

Comment 5

[u88484]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Great I'll do it ASAP and paste it as a comment

Please just attach the html file using the "add an attachment" link above the comments section here.

Comment 6

[Fabian T]

Sorry I can't make a reduced test case, it doesn't work when I copy the HTML for the field and paste it in another separate HTML document.

Comment 7

[Matt Caywood]

Thanks for the bug report. 

Regarding your bug description, the other user at the forum confirmed it was *not* a Firefox bug. 

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/278409

It's a bug in TinyMCE and has been patched by Drupal.

http://drupal.org/node/135150

Marking invalid.

Comment 8

[Fabian T]

Huh? It is that guy at the forum who said it was a Firefox 3.0 bug!

Comment 9

[Matt Caywood]

Yes, the bug shows up in Firefox 3.0. 

But the problem is with TinyMCE, not Firefox. 

Please read the other forum ("TinyMCE disables Firefox spellcheck by default.")

Comment 11

[Fabian T]

Hi I noticed something strange.

When I type a wrong word, it doesn't underline.

If I type a wrong word and I alt+tab, it underlines for that word only.

If it's a bug with TinyMCE why does alt tabbing affect the way the spellchecker works?