Bug 23466 – WebKit editing commands should remove empty (attribute-less) span tags (like FF does)

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: HTML Editing

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

WebKit editing commands should remove empty (attribute-less) span tags (like FF does) 

Right now we do something like this:

<span style="font-weight: bold">test</span>

document.execCommand("bold", false, null);

<span>test</span>

where as FF would remove the same <span> tags.  After talking with Ojan and Julie here @ the Goog (who have both written a lot of JS HTML Editing code), we agree that FF's behavior is more what authors will like.  Authors can trivially cause us to leave the <span> tags, but adding any attribute.  For example <span a> would cause us to leave the span tag instead of removing it (after my fix).

Test case (and fix) forthcoming.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Created attachment 26946 [details]
Remove <span> turds left by editing commands

 LayoutTests/ChangeLog                              |   12 ++++++
 .../execCommand/empty-span-removal-expected.txt    |   14 +++++++
 .../editing/execCommand/empty-span-removal.html    |   13 ++++++
 .../execCommand/resources/empty-span-removal.js    |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++
 .../editing/execCommand/toggle-styles-expected.txt |   12 +++---
 WebCore/ChangeLog                                  |   21 ++++++++++
 WebCore/editing/ApplyStyleCommand.cpp              |   28 +++++++++++---
 7 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Already landed.