Open Bug 925271 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Font size is getting smaller and smaller

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: konrad.hammerer, Unassigned)

References

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: Change the general font size in the main program settings (HTML options) to something different than the default value "medium". Example: Small Then compose a new HTML mail and Write this text: This is a test Now, mark and copy the word "test" and paste it after the "is". Result: This is test a test Now, send the mail. Actual results: Depending on the mail client, the first "test" is smaller than the rest. Thunderbird clients do not show this but my mobile phone client does. This happens because Thunderbird does not work with precise font size settings but with something like "<font size="-1">". Each copy and paste will add such a "-1" and that is why the words keep getting smaller and smaller. Here is an example of the mail source: <font size="-1"><font face="Calibri">This is a test and </font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Calibri"><font size="-1"><font face="Calibri">smaller </font></font>I should be smaller</font></font>. Expected results: The mail text should be shown in one size and not in different sizes on other mail clients.
The directions as described (or at least how I interpreted them) didn't reproduce the reported issue. However, If I started an email and then clicked on the message windows "smaller font size" button, typed a long sentence of text and then copied part of the sentence to another part of the sentence I did recreate the bug as described. Basically the only thing I did different was to use the "smaller font size" button rather than to set a small font size in the Thunderbird preferences.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This is strange as I can reproduce it as described a 100% with all Thunderbird versions (at least the last couple of years). For me, it works only if I leave the general font size (extras - settings) set to "medium". As soon as I change it to something else, I can reproduce the above mentioned "copy&paste" bug.
See Also: → 933409
See Also: → 886146
forum.news Do you still see this issue?
Flags: needinfo?(forum.news)
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3) > forum.news > > Do you still see this issue? Yes, If you follow this instructions, you should get an html mail like this: - open general settings and set the font to something like Tahoma and the size to small or smaller - compose a mail and type a text like "this is a test" - copy the word "test" and paste it between "is" and "a" - send the mail This is what Thunderbird will make out if this: ... <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font size="-2"><font face="Tahoma">This is </font></font><font size="-2"><font face="Tahoma"><font size="-2"><font face="Tahoma">test</font></font> a test<br> </font></font> </body> ... As you can see, the copied word "test" is wrapped twice by a font tag with size="-2". None of my clients actually have a problem with that anymore, but I'm sure that there are mail clients still struggling with that... Konrad
Flags: needinfo?(forum.news)
Component: Message Compose Window → Composition
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Version: 24 Branch → 24
Severity: normal → S3
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