594284 - Text style and color does not apply properly when few words separately selected.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 485638

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Anatoly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100906 Firefox/4.0b6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.3

When choosing a few words and try to apply custom style or color to them will expectedly to see what styles are applied to all words, but in practice it applied only to the first highlighted word.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create new email message.
2.Type few words
3.Select few words.
4.Apply text style or color.
Actual Results:  
Style applying only to first selected word.

Expected Results:  
Style applying to all selected words.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you try in -safe-mode (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode) ?

Comment 2

[Anatoly]

'thunderbird -safe-mode' gave me the same results.

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

I am not able to reproduce this using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10pre) Gecko/20100903 Lanikai/3.1.4pre ID:20100903002321
Which should be pretty close to the 3.1.3 release build.

I'm not able to test in Linux.

Comment 4

[Anatoly]

I am sucessfuly reproduce this on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10pre) Gecko/20100909 Lanikai/3.1.4preMozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10pre) Gecko/20100909 Lanikai/3.1.4pre

May be it is linux related bug?

Comment 5

[Anatoly]

sucessfuly reproduce on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10pre) Gecko/20100912 Lanikai/3.1.5pre

Not a linux related bug.

Comment 6

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

OK To reproduce this, you must make separated selections.
That is; make separated non-contiguous selection, then attempt to apply a font change.
I'm not sure if this has ever worked though, so we should check in an older build.
Marking as new, but further triage is needed.

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #6)

> Marking as new, but further triage is needed.

Joe would you have time to do it over the next week ?

Comment 8

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> 
> > Marking as new, but further triage is needed.
> 
> Joe would you have time to do it over the next week ?

Will do. Even if this turns out to be an enhancement request, it would be a valuable improvement since multiple selection is a common editing style.

In the meantime I have a "weak" work-around:
With the multiple selection still highlighted,if you apply the font change again, then the change is applied to the next selection.
Might save someone a few key strokes.

Comment 9

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

I can reproduce this in the midas demo
http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/

New steps to reproduce:
Open the midasdemo and choose a font
Type in a few words in that font
Hold down CNTRL and select multiple words
Click on an attribute in the formatting toolbar (IE bold)

Result: The attribute was only applied to the first selected word.

Additional info:
If you continue to toggle the selected icon so that all selections are updated, then further formatting toolbar selections are then applied to all selections, with just one click.

Comment 10

[MatteoM]

reproduced this on
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; it; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4