Bug 23507 – pressing enter inside a list item doesn't create new list item

• Component: HTML Editing
• Status: NEW

[Deepak Jindal]

Take the following html in which the list item is inside a div:

<ul><li><div>foobar</div></li></ul>

Place your cursor between foo and bar and press enter. A new list item should be created.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Take the following html in which the list item is inside a div:
> 
> <ul><li><div>foobar</div></li></ul>
> 
> Place your cursor between foo and bar and press enter. A new list item should
> be created.
> 

I tried three different browsers (Firefox 3, MSIE 7, and Safari).  Only Firefox inserts new list.  Because div is a block element, I don't think inserting a new line within a div shouldn't be splitting the div.  On the other hand, when I'm at the end of "foobar", I feel like I should be able to start new item by pressing enter (MSIE and WebKit doesn't let you create new list item at all.)

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Sorry, I submitted the comment prematurely with lots of typo.  Here's a slightly better version of it:

I tried three different browsers (Firefox 3, MSIE 7, and Safari), and only Firefox inserted a new list item.  Because div is a block element, I don't think inserting a new line within a div should be splitting the div.  On the other hand, when I'm at the end of "foobar", I feel like I should be able to insert a new list item by pressing enter (MSIE and WebKit don't let you create new list item at all.)

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Apparently, MSIE8 DOES create new list item.  Perhaps they have changed the behavior since MSIE7 or that I didn't test well.

[Marcos Almeida]

This is still an issue and affects Google properties.

[Aryeh Gregor]

Currently my spec agrees with WebKit, but I agree with comment #0 that splitting the list item makes more sense.  I've filed a spec bug:

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13841