656802 - When attachments are being displayed inline, html files should be separated so that their CSS styles don't affect the main message preview

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31052

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[133794m3r]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110314 Thunderbird/3.3a3

When using html documents that include CSS inside of themselves, it takes over the entire document, and thus displays it as such. I would like to see the attachments being given their own "area" below the normal document itself. Such as having another chrome window or something inside of that. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attach HTML document including css inside of the <style> element
2. save the email
3. look at said email

Actual Results:  
as stated above. It happens like that.

Expected Results:  
I'd like to see it putting them below the actual email message. Either through a separate chrome window, or something similar so that it is separate and doesn't affect the email itself.

I would love to see it work as I described. I have no idea why it is working like it is, but it would be a nice feature to have. It also, makes the document almost unreadable especially if you are using strict styles for the item itself.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

You know that you can change the way attachments are sent ?

can you attach a sample html file which produces the issue using the add an attachment button above ?

Comment 2

[133794m3r]

Attachment: html file as described.

The document when attached is applied inline inside of an email. Thunderbird, sees the formatting of the second document, as the formatting of the email itself. Instead of applying the html at the end of it. It's seeing the attached style as it's own for the document in and of itself. I don't know how complex it'd be to have the attachemnets be their own window like area, sort of like a frame, at the end of the document but that would probably be the best way to avoid having such things happen.

Comment 3

[133794m3r]

To the attachments sending them differently, What do you mean? It's sent as an attachment. And when i _view_ it inside of thunderbird. It is seen as I described. When i check it in gmail, it is just a plain old attachment which I then have to see later on by clicking it. I'd rather it be a simple frame at the bottom of the page so that it has it's own css styles.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

133794m3r, thanks for filing.
This is not actually a RFE; it's is a bug. Known as bug 31052.