Closed
Bug 921363
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
Provide UI to set the background color of selected text
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 318600
People
(Reporter: will.pittenger1+mozbugzilla, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258
Steps to reproduce:
Thunderbird's Compose window has two buttons to change the color. One is for the foreground. The other is background color. The foreground button changes the color for the selected text. The background button? The entire page. There is no toolbar button to change the selected text's background color.
Actual results:
When I change the background color, TB changes the background of the entire page (on the <body> tag?).
Expected results:
TB should have changed the background color of only selected text. If there is no selection, TB should have changed the background color of any text the user enters without moving the caret
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Comment 1•12 years ago
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Will, thanks very much for filing this valid RFE (however next time, try double-check on duplicates ;)
It's quite amazing that this missing feature / misfeature of basic formatting has survived for so long, but composition is one of the stepchild's of TB. As seen on related bugs, this might involve shared Editor code, where from times immemorial CSS formatting was/is switched off, which somehow hindered this. But certainly should no more, in 2013...
Do you have some coding skills or someone who could code this? We rely exclusively on volunteer contributions for these things.
See bug 489067, bug 318600, bug 121210, bug 97840 (SM HTML Editr/Composer)...
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Comment 2•12 years ago
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Actually, I did look for duplicates. Nothing turned up even though I did a couple different searches. While I do a lot of coding, very little is Javascript. I'm rather clumsy there. Most of what I do these days is C# or Java. And none of that resembles a website. I'm familiar with XUL, but find XBL confusing.
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Comment 3•12 years ago
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(In reply to Thomas D. (away till 23rd Oct) from comment #1)
> See bug 489067, bug 318600, bug 121210, bug 97840 (SM HTML Editr/Composer)...
I consolidated these bugs into bug 318600 (mailnews), the root cause probably being bug 97840 (SM HTML Editor/Composer).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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