Bug 12198 – execcommand italic and bold commands should generate <i> and <b>

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: DOM

[Anne van Kesteren]

I heard that currently "italic" and "bold" generic something along the lines of:

  <span style="font-style:italic"> ... </span>

that's not really useful. Given that this is mostly used by WYSIWYG editors generating <em> and <strong> isn't particularly useful either (that's what IE does at the moment).

[Dan POPA]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I heard that currently "italic" and "bold" generic something along the lines
> of:
> 
>   <span style="font-style:italic"> ... </span>
> 
> that's not really useful. Given that this is mostly used by WYSIWYG editors
> generating <em> and <strong> isn't particularly useful either (that's what IE
> does at the moment).
> 
Consider implementing document.execCommand("styleWithCSS", false, bool) as in Gecko.
When bool is false, formatting commands should use tags instead of styled spans. Use B,I no STRONG,EM.

[Dan POPA]

OK, Use STRONG,EM not B,I .

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 14175 [details]
test case

Anne, this seems to work as expected in a current nightly: <i><b>Test</b></i>

I do not know if this has changed, or was always so.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I've also tried r18386 (from December 2006), and it also added <b> and <i>. Closing as INVALID.

Going to file a separate bug for styleWithCSS.