676966 - In contentEditable forms, selecting the entire text (ctrl+a) and trying to format bold or italic fails to output correct html with execCommand

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ihavetoeatdinner]

Attachment: To see what I mean, please try running the attached HTML code in Firefox 5.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1
Build ID: 20110707182747

Steps to reproduce:

'm trying to write a wysiwyg editor using a contentEditable div, and am having trouble in Firefox when dealing with bold (and italic).



Actual results:


When all text in the div is selected, execCommand('bold') works in the div, but when I try to grab the HTML of that content, the HTML does not reveal any formatting.
To see what I mean, please try running the attached HTML code in Firefox 5.

Please try the following:

  -  Select the word "Some" only. Click the Bold button. This will make the text bold, as expected. The HTML output uses <span style="font-weight:bold;"> to bold the word, which is somewhat unfortunate (it's <b> in Safari, Chrome), but nonetheless does the job.
 -   Select the entire phrase "Some editable text" (either manually or using CTRL-A). Click the Bold button. While the contentEditable text is bold, as expected, the HTML output does not have the bold formatting applied.



Expected results:

The HTML output should have the bold formatting applied.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

It works if onClick="execCommand('styleWithCSS', false, false);execCommand(.....

Comment 2

[Vlad [QA]]

Attachment: screenshot

View Selection source shows 
> <div style="font-weight: bold;" id="input" contenteditable="true">Some editable text</div>
And the test is shown in bold.

Comment 3

[ihavetoeatdinner]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #1)
> It works if onClick="execCommand('styleWithCSS', false,
> false);execCommand(.....

Thanks. This worked!

Comment 4

[AndreiD[QA]]

(In reply to ihavetoeatdinner from comment #3)
> (In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #1)
> > It works if onClick="execCommand('styleWithCSS', false,
> > false);execCommand(.....
> 
> Thanks. This worked!

So is this Resolved? Can you set the bug's status accordingly? Thanks

Comment 6

[Vlad [QA]]

Considering comment3, setting resolution to Resolved WFM