546631 - execCommand formatBlock does not insert <DIV> elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[hdn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Build Identifier: 3.7a2pre

Calls to document.execCommand('formatBlock', false, '<div>') returns true but nothing happens. No <div> element is inserted.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[hdn]

Attachment: Testcase

To reproduce: 
Open the attached file select some text and click the "Test <P> element" link. Everything works as expected. Refresh the page, select some text and click the "Test <DIV> element" link. Nothing happens.

Comment 2

[hdn]

Quote: "Virtually all block style tags can be used"
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla#

Allthough it does not explicitly say that <DIV> elements are supported, I believe they qualify as reasonable block element to support. Otherwise the execCommand method should return false and not true.

Comment 3

[Aryeh Gregor (:ayg) (no longer with Mozilla)]

In Firefox 11.0, I get the following output:

"""
    Select this text and wrap in in a block element using the links below...
    

execCommand return value: true

HTML after:
<div>
    Select this text and wrap in in a block element using the links below...
    </div>
"""

So it seems like this has been fixed.  Please reopen if you can still reproduce.