NEW 16973
Shift+Return doesn't produce BR elements in a contentEditable area. 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16973
Summary Shift+Return doesn't produce BR elements in a contentEditable area.
Johan "Spocke" Sörlin
Reported Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:34:20 PM UTC
WebKit doesn't produce BR element on a shift+return key press. This works in all other major browsers like IE, FF and Opera. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the attached URL. 2. Place caret inside editable area. 3. Press shift+return. 4. Observe that nothing happens, no BR is produced.
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Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:03:20 AM UTC
*** Bug 16974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mitz
Comment 2 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:01:05 AM UTC
See also bug 13959.
Tom Gilder
Comment 3 Monday, March 10, 2008 3:07:28 AM UTC
On OS X, Ctrl+Return inserts a <br>. No key combination seems to on Windows, though.
Gerald Cornish
Comment 4 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:12:55 PM UTC
This problem does NOT occur on my Pismo (10.4.11) using Firefox 3beta, Netscape 7.02, Omniweb 5.6, Navigator 9.0.0.6, iCab 3.0.5, iCab 4.0.1
Graham Perrin
Comment 5 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:16:46 AM UTC
Whether control-return is a norm in Mac OS X, I don't know. (I'm reminded that alt-spacebar is the norm for a non-breaking space but in Kupu I can't find any key combination for a non-breaking space (that's a separate issue).)
Moxiecode Systems
Comment 6 Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:59:37 PM UTC
This once can be closed. I can no longer reproduce it.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 7 Sunday, March 27, 2011 6:12:59 AM UTC
Testing with a Mac nightly, I see that Ctrl+Return produces a <BR>, while Shift+Return produces a nested <div>. I don't know if that's correct behavior. But sounds like this bug was actually about Windows Safari? The platform/OS fields don't make it clear.
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 8 Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:23:35 AM UTC
(In reply to comment #7) > Testing with a Mac nightly, I see that Ctrl+Return produces a <BR>, while Shift+Return produces a nested <div>. I don't know if that's correct behavior. Chrome uses Shift+Return for <br> on Mac as well as on Windows. Maybe this is a Safari Mac port bug?
Mike Sherov
Comment 9 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 11:37:24 PM UTC
As of this writing, Safari on Yosemite produces `<p><br></p>` instead of `<br>` (which is the behavior of the other browsers. Is this expected? Is there any chance of this being fixed soon?
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