Bug 51082 – execCommand('JustifyCenter') adds extra BR

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

[Ryosuke Niwa]

execCommand('JustifyCenter') and any other editing command that modifies the CSS block properties will add an extra BR at the end of block.

e.g. justifying center: "hello" yields <div style="text-align: center;">hello<br></div> as supposed to <div style="text-align: center;">hello<br></div>.

This is a primary reason WebKit is scoring so low on http://www.browserscope.org/richtext2/test.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Created attachment 76612 [details]
fixes the bug

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 76612 [details]
fixes the bug

Seems inelegant to me to add a <br> and then later remove it.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Thanks for the review!

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 76612 [details])
> Seems inelegant to me to add a <br> and then later remove it.

It really is. I'm not happy about that either. But we do this all ever the place in editing whenever we move paragraphs because ReplaceSelectionCommand and others require a placeholder. We could avoid doing this if we had used moveParagraphWithClones instead.

On a side note, we should really be using ApplyBlockElementCommand here because all we need to do is to wrap each paragraph with a div and ApplyBlockElementCommand does exactly that.  However, when I tried to deploy ApplyBlockElementCommand while working on this bug, I encountered numerous crashes and failures and I had to give up.  I'll come back to this issue later though.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Comment on attachment 76612 [details]
fixes the bug

Clearing flags on attachment: 76612

Committed r74214: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/74214>

[Ryosuke Niwa]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.