Closed Bug 603219 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

A href anchor links (e.g. #location) are removed when inserting html into a message

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 597784

People

(Reporter: prcjac, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4

When using the Insert>HTML window, if I have text which has links to an anchor on the page, e.g. <a href="#myspeciallocation">My Special Place</a>, whenever you hit insert no link is created and on inspection of the HTML the above looks like <a>My Special Place</a>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Write a new message
2.Insert > HTML and paste your content with anchor links
3.View the HTML of the content you've just pasted
Actual Results:  
Instead of the expected <a href="#myspecialplace"> I am presented with <a>

Expected Results:  
It should have been presented with <a href="#myspecialplace">
OS: Windows 7 → All
I've remembered it also affects Thunderbird 3.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 x86_64
I can reproduce with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101010 Thunderbird/3.3a1pre.
Component: Message Compose Window → Composition
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
QA Contact: message-compose → composition
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Interesting, using the exact HTML code specified by the reporter, this works
for me on both Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101004 Thunderbird/3.1.5 branch and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101010 SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre (Insert>HTML, saved as draft).
(In reply to comment #1)
> I've remembered it also affects Thunderbird 3.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 x86_64

I'm also unable to reproduce this on either Linux x86_64 1.9.1 or trunk...
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I've remembered it also affects Thunderbird 3.0.8 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 x86_64
> 
> I'm also unable to reproduce this on either Linux x86_64 1.9.1 or trunk...

Did you change any defaults settings on your installs wrt to sending/composition ?
I've never touched the sending/composition settings since installing Thunderbird and having a brief look over that area there are no obvious settings that relate to said issue.

It would appear that I'm not the only one with this issue as shown here - http://forums.htmlhelp.com/index.php?showtopic=12341

The issue, for me, seems to have arisen in releases after the 20th August 2010 (This was the last time I sent an email with the anchor links that worked)
I should have said I was asking rsx11. I'm seeing the issue too.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I'm using plain-text composition by default, have changed it to compose in HTML for testing and restarted. Opened a new message, Insert > HTML, copy-pasted the code given in the description, closed message, Save As Draft? > Save, gone into Drafts folder, select message, link is there and encoded HTML reads as follows:

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
  </head>
  <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <a href="#myspeciallocation">My Special Place</a>
  </body>
</html>

Am I following the steps to reproduce correctly or did you do anything different? I'm adding Ehsan to the CC list, maybe he has some idea.
BTW: All builds I'm using are after the checkin of bug 597784, which might explain a presence in 3.1.4 while being solved in 3.1.5; BUT if indeed Ludo
can reproduce the issue in a 20101010 Thunderbird/3.3a1pre build, that would contradict this assumption.
(In reply to comment #6)
> The issue, for me, seems to have arisen in releases after the 20th August 2010
> (This was the last time I sent an email with the anchor links that worked)

This coincides with bug 520189, effective 3.0.7/3.1.3; can you (P. Cowan) try http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.1.5-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/
to see if the issue is still reproducible there? That would give us a sanity check whether or not it's coming from that security patch and may have been resolved in the follow-up fix.
Hum I should have checked my draft - there's It's OK.
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: false
Such anchor URLs won't be valid in the target document anyways, would they?
A use case for such an anchor would be a forward reference to part of the message sent, e.g., from a table of contents to the actual section. This may
not be unusual for a newsletter-style e-mail.
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > The issue, for me, seems to have arisen in releases after the 20th August 2010
> > (This was the last time I sent an email with the anchor links that worked)
> 
> This coincides with bug 520189, effective 3.0.7/3.1.3; can you (P. Cowan) try
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.1.5-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/
> to see if the issue is still reproducible there? That would give us a sanity
> check whether or not it's coming from that security patch and may have been
> resolved in the follow-up fix.

I've just installed the build you recommended and the issue doesn't arise, everything is behaving as normal!
Great, thanks for testing. Ludo, do you agree with either resolving as WFM or
as a dupe of bug 597784?
(In reply to comment #15)
> Great, thanks for testing. Ludo, do you agree with either resolving as WFM or
> as a dupe of bug 597784?

I do.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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