556475 - Spellcheck should not check content on STYLE element in html messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222747

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Dave Royal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.6.2-1.2 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4

I raised this following this question on Messaging support forum:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/why_spell_check_the_markup_in_html_messages



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose an html message with inline style in the sig or the message body, e.g.

<style type="text/css">
#sig { font-family : monospace ; }
</style>
<p id=sig>Dave</p>

I tried it as an html sig, and also used 'insert html' to put it in the message body.

2 Spellcheck the message.
Actual Results:  
'sig' and 'monospace' are flagged by the spellchecker

Expected Results:  
Should only spellcheck 'Dave'.

I've seen this mentioned several times on the forum. All the examples quoted are where people have included html generated by MS Office  - which might be a bad idea but should work /if/ the html is valid. 

Whether style elements are supposed to be valid in a sig or a message I don't know. HTML signature advice:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Signatures_%28Thunderbird%29#HTML_signature_files
(If style elements are invalid I suggest that page should say so.)

Comment 1

[edwardb]

Attachment: Signature html file that gives spelling errors

Signature html file that gives spelling errors.
Created / edited with MS Word 2003 on Win XP.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4

Comment 2

[edwardb]

Attachment: Signature html file that does not produce spelling errors

Signature html file that does not produce spelling errors.
Created with Nvu 1.0 on Win XP.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4