869816 - HTML Mails - Font size changes every time backspace is used (reproducible)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Konrad]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I have changed the font size in the overall (global) program settings (menu - tools - settings...) to "small" (one step smaller than the default).

btw: What is this "stupid" setting with small, smaller... Why can't we just use something like 8,9,10,11... as font size?!?! I know, this is HTML on so on, but hey, we all want to use "pt" as unit.


Actual results:

I created a simple HTML mail and pressed backspace a couple of times while typing the body text. Now, the font size gets one "unit" smaller whenever you hit backspace. It is not visible in the composer window itself, but the receiver of the mail will see it. Depending on the mail client of the receiver, the mail text is shown with different font sizes. Thunderbird itself does not show it like this, but other clients do. Anyhow, if you check the source from the received mail, you can see that problem (each backspace creates another <font size="-1">):

<font size="-1">test1 test<font size="-1">2 test<font size="-1">3 te<font
            size="-1"> test<font size="-1">5</font></font></font></font></font><br>


Expected results:

The whole mail body should have the same size:

<font size="-1">test1 test2 test3 test5</font><br>

Comment 1

[Joe Smith]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 812638, apparently fixed on TB21.

See also bug 922022 comment 3.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Konrad,
Does this still fail for you?

Comment 3

[Konrad]

Hi,

Thanks for asking. I just tried to reproduce this issue (with TB 115.8.0) but I can't. Looks like it is working now as expected.

btw: please ignore my comment in the original post about "small, smaller... instead of pt units". Reading it now (11 years later), it feels kinda rude. Sorry for that!

Konrad

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update