Bug 57150 – Deleteing lists in contentEditable/designMode produces DIV element

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

[Moxiecode Systems]

Description:
Deleteing lists in contentEditable/designMode produces DIV element it should produce an empty area or a BR element to place the caret.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the attached URL.
2. Place caret behind the X inside editable area below.
3. Press backspace twice.
4. Click the Dump HTML link observe the HTML produced.

Expected results:
An empty editable area or BR element.

Actual results:
<div><br></div>

[Aryeh Gregor]

The specification says that this should produce <p><br></p>:

http://aryeh.name/spec/editing/editing.html#the-delete-command

It's the case "If node is an li or dt or dd and is the first child of its parent, and offset is zero:".  The "fix disallowed ancestors" step below that will turn the <li> into a <p> if it's not the child of an <ol>/<ul>.  This is in keeping with the spec's philosophy (adopted from IE/Opera) that every line should be wrapped in a <p> or other "single-line container" (as I chose to call them).

[Ryosuke Niwa]

This is working as expected although it should be <p><br></p> instead of <div><br></div>. But that's a separate issue.