629199 - MDN WYSIWYG editor (presumably based on contentEditable) has broken styling support

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Katelyn Gadd (:kael)]

The what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor used on MDN is broken in FF4b9 and FF4b10. Specifically, the handling of content styling seems to be severely broken, to the point that if I attempt to add new content to a page, it gets locked into the style of previous content and I cannot change the style. This functionality works as expected in the other browser I tested against (Chrome) and I remember it working the last time I used MDN.

Specific repro steps:
1. Load up https://developer.mozilla.org/en/pymake
2. Click edit
3. Place your caret in some text that's formatted as code
4. Hit enter to add a new line, then type some text
5. Note that the text is formatted as code. Attempt to change it to regular text.

I tried using the styling UI in the editor along with non-UI methods, like pasting the text into notepad (to clear the styling bits from the clipboard) then copying it and pasting it back in as raw text, and that wouldn't work either. All the obvious things I tried worked in Chrome.

It's possible this is a bug in the MDN editor, since this is also broken in IE8.

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

This bug should probably not live here, but I don't know where its home should be.  CCing sheppy to alert him, and ask him to move this to the correct component.

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Sounds like a bug in the version of the CKEditor used by the version of MindTouch we're running. May be fixed in the version we're getting ready to upgrade to.

Comment 3

[David Bruant]

We moved to Kuma. I don't think this bug is relevant any longer.