599317 - ContentEditable: partially selected paragraphs are removed on DEL or CTRL-X

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[FredCK]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
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In an editable document, a partially selected paragraph element is removed, remaining only its contents, when attempting to delete with DEL or cut with CTRL-X.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the good and old Midas demo:
   http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/

2. Load this HTML in the HTML Source view.

<p id="1">P1</p>
<p id="2">P2</p>
<p id="3">P3</p>

3. Back to the HTML editing view, start a selection at the very start of the P2 paragraph, until the very start of the P2 paragraph. It should result in a selection like the following (marked with square brackets):

<p id="1">P1</p>
<p id="2">[P2</p>
<p id="3">]P3</p>

Visually, the P2 paragraph is selected.

4. Hit DEL or CTRL-X.

5. Go to HTML Source view again.

Actual Results:  
The following HTML will result:

<p id="1">P1</p>3

Expected Results:  
The following HTML should result instead:

<p id="1">P1</p><p id="3">P3</p>

Comment 1

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.