96671 - returning to edit html formated text in a document results in a new line and loss of formatting.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Shawn Neumann]

Using 2001082303 on Win2K

I appologize if this is a know bug, but for the life of me I couldn't find it.

Step to reproduce:
1. Create a new e-mail
2. Enter some text in the body of the message like:

test now.

now test.

3. Select the new text and change it's font (e.g. to Helvetica, Arial)
4. With you mouse, click on the end of the "test now." line as if you would like
to add to that paragraph.  Enter more text.

RESULT: the additional text is created on a new line below your paragraph and
font formatting is lost.

EXPECTED RESULTS: formatting is retained and the new text continues on the
current line.

It appears that when you click on the end of the line and hit the back key, it
requires 2 presses to move the carat the first time as if it is responding to an
invisible end tag.  My expectation would be that the last tag on a line would
always be pushed out to the end when new text is added.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->jfrancis

Comment 2

[Shawn Neumann]

I tried it in 2001082703 and it acted a bit differently.  I clicked at the end
of the formated text line and the new text was fine.  I then immediately clicked
on the end of the line again and the cursor moved out one character and any text
entered now moved to the next line and lost the previous line's formatting.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New. 

Comment 4

[Joe Francis]

097

Comment 5

[Joe Francis]

This may actually be a selection bug; no sure yet.

Comment 6

[Joe Francis]

This is a couple of bugs in one.  One was fixed earlier (and involved font tags
and other inline style being split along <br> boundaries unneccessarily) and the
other is a caret positioning issue.  The fix to that is attached to Bug 97259:
Visible caret position incorrect after pasting blank lines.

Comment 7

[Joe Francis]

i think all the stuff that fixes this is checked in now.

Comment 8

[esther]

Using build 20020322 on winxp, mac 9.1 and linux and the original scenario this
is fixed. Verified