993279 - missing properties in "style" tag when saving changes after editing a page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: CSS, defect)

Description

[georgelin422]

What did you do?
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1. press edit in one of the tutorial pages
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Getting_Started/Tables
2. clicked the button "save changes" after editing
3. checked the source code of the resulting page

What happened?
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I found that some properties that have been set to the "style" tag are missing. For example, <tables style="border-spacing: .5em;"></tables> is written in the edit mode, yet it shows <tables style=""></tables> in the resulting page and thus the visual layout is not as expected.

What should have happened?
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the resulting page should be the same as the one in the edit mode, otherwise it is very confusing for learners who study this tutorial.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is not a bug. We are trying to get away from using the style attribute in favor of using the standard CSS classes we pre-define. This page should be updated to correct this problem.

Comment 2

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Moving over to CSS for content/formatting updates. 

Also, this needs to be under Web/CSS in order to be monitored by the CSS doc status page.

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

1. Fundamentally, edit doesn't mean 'Play with the example' but 'Edit to fix this page', so it shouldn't be use to experiment.  
2. For security reasons, we doesn't allow every property in style to be used on the page. We use a feature called 'live samples' when this is needed.
3. We have now 'Open in…' buttons that allows to open examples in external tool that precisely allow to play with the examples.

For these 3 reasons, I'm WONTFIXING this bug.