87617 - Description lists don't indent

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[[e-mail]]

Using Build ID: 2001062104

Steps to reproduce problem:
1. Type three lines of text into Editor.
2. Format the list as Term (or Definition)
3. Try to indent the middle line.

Expected results: line indents.

Actual results: line turns into its own list.

Additional information:
Communicator 4.x appears to do this right but in fact it generates invalid HTML.
The selected items should get enclosed in a <dd><dl> ... </dl></dd> block.
Something similar has to happen for outdent.

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

1.0 --> jfrancis

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 3

[TucsonTester1]

confirmed on mac os x build 2001121805, changing platform/os to all

Comment 4

[michael wendell]

Changing Platform and OS to all/all per above comments.

Comment 5

[Syd Logan]

minusing, my mom didn't know what a definition list was :-)

Comment 6

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

(a) We already suck on DL/DT/DD ; when the selection is at the end of a DT and
    user hits return, we should create a DD, not another DT ; and vice-versa

(b) This bug is caused by CanContainTag() call in nsHTMLEditRules::SplitAsNeeded()
    This call returns true for ul/ul parameters (that's against the DTD but that's
    also the only way we have to manage nested lists for the moment, see related
    bug 54479), but it returns false for dl/dl

Comment 7

[Joe Francis]

The trunk is the wave of the future!

Comment 8

[Joe Francis]

The days of having a half dozen milestones out in front of us to divide bugs 
between seem to be gone, though I dont know why.  Lumping everything together as 
far out as I can.  I'll pull back things that I am working on as I go.

Comment 9

[Joe Francis]

[ushing these out as far as bugzilla will let me.  I'll pull them back as I work
on them.

Comment 10

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

DOM: Editor is no longer the right component for this type of bugs. This bug was for the Editor App that was built for Thunderbird email composer or SeaMonkey.