677195 - HTML formating is stripped when there are only paragraphs.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136502

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

1) So compose an email where the only formatting is <p> </p> and nothing else html wise (well appart from a few <br>).

2) send

This is send as plaintext even though send as hmlt + text is selected.

if you change one letter to be bold , it will be sent as html+text

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110808 Thunderbird/8.0a1

Filling as UNCO. as this might be a duplicate and Joe probably knows better than I do.

Comment 1

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Send format auto-detect works like this:
If the message can be down-converted to plaintext and that conversion is lossless then it will be converted to plaintext.
In the case of just <p tags this is true, there is no loss.
TB makes that decision for you. The only way to defeat it is to use Options>>Format and select a send mode there. (this must be done on every composition)
Bug 136502 wants a way to avoid the auto-detection by pref.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Joe Sabash from comment #1)
> Send format auto-detect works like this:

Thanks for the explanation Joe !!!

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #0)

Simplest/easiest workaround:
  <B></B>(or some other tags) in your HTML signature (<B>&nbsp;</B> required?)