959044 - Rich-text editing: before inserting a list, Enter key inserts <br>. After a list, Enter inserts <p>.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[brian]

Attachment: richedit.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Mozilla's Rich Text Editor sample page http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/, or open the attached HTML file richedit.html for a simple reproducible case.

2. Type a couple of short lines of text in the rich editable area. Hit Enter once after each line. Using the Inspector, notice that a single <br> is inserted into the rich-editor div.

3. Create either an unordered or ordered list. Add a couple of bullet items.

4. Hit Enter on a blank list item at the end, to end the list.

5. Type a couple of short lines of text. Hit Enter once after each line. 



Actual results:

After the list, each time you hit Enter it inserts a <p> (which automatically inserts a blank line before each paragraph.) 

But before the list, each Enter inserted only a <br> (which did not insert a blank line.)



Expected results:

Enter should consistently add a <br>, whether before or after a list.

Commentary: this makes GMail annoying in Firefox. After making a list, Enter works differently than it did before the list.

Comment 1

[Loic]

I tested with old versions of Firefox (v8), same issue, so surely an old bug maybe already reported.

Comment 2

[brian]

It's true that this behavior has existed for a long time. But I searched the archives before filing it and I was unable to find it reported in the past.

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.