716741 - Saving files causes line breaks in tags' alt="" and title=""

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

Attachment: alt-image-line-breaks.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1
Build ID: 20111221001913

Steps to reproduce:

Simply saving files in Composer causes a line break separation in the title="" of anchor tags and the alt="" of image tags.


Actual results:

In the attached example notice how the alt="Great Mother, (the primordial Creatress), Nurturance and Nourishment from the Divine" and all other such attributes are split, resulting not only in line breaks, but also in a lot of space added between the end of one line and the beginning of the next, i.e.

"Imix:
Great Mother,
(the
primordial
Creatress),
Nurturance and
Nourishment
from the
Divine."


Expected results:

With both title and alt attributes, the content between "" should remain contiguous, not altered as such.

Comment 1

[mozilla]

Although the attached file only provides examples of the alt attribute, the same thing consistently occurs with title attributes as well.

Comment 2

[mozilla]

When the line breaks and spaces in the attribute text are removed using Composer, they are renewed when the file is saved again. However, when they are removed using a simple text editor (e.g. Notepad or Wordpad), they do not reoccur when the file's saved - until the file is opened in Composer and thereby saved again.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Wow, this is weird. CC Ehsan in case he has any clues.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

This might be something that our serializers do, or it might be SeaMonkey itself.  I don't really know how it saves files...

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The serializer probably just inserts line breaks in any sufficiently-long attribute value....

Comment 7

[Phoenix]

Confirming on trunk
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13a1
Build identifier: 20120712003002

Comment 11

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Already  REPRODUCIBLE with  DE  SeaMonkey 2.5  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1)  Gecko/20111121  Firefox/8.0.1   Build 20111121045514  (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit

Was still ok with  DE  SeaMonkey 2.0  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:1.9.1.4)  Gecko/20091017  Build 20091017081335  (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit