Bug 93584 – InsertHTML strips out div tags almost universally

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: HTML Editing

[David Gatwood]

Created attachment 157400 [details]
Demonstrates insertHTML stripping out div tags in five different contexts

WebKit's execCommand's insertHTML seems to be unwilling to insert a div tag pretty much anywhere that contains any sort of text (even temporarily).  Unfortunately, I cannot easily avoid this temporary insertion or use anything other than div tags because that is the only element that Safari seems willing to paste arbitrary blobs of HTML inside without silently changing all the pasted tags to spans....

I've attached a sample HTML file that demonstrates five different test cases in which WebKit strips out div tags instead of inserting them.  Firefox passes all five tests.

[David Gatwood]

Created attachment 157855 [details]
Test case where <span> gets stripped.

In this trivial test case, it strips out <span> when inserting into a <div>.  It works correctly if there's text selected when it inserts, but if the start and end points of the selection are the same, it fails.

[Robert McBride]

I am seeing this behavior to.

It appears that when trying to insert a span into a div or even a p tag, then the span tag is lost. The text contents of the span remain.

Here is a jsfiddle the I hope demonstrates the issue well.
http://jsfiddle.net/mrexception/pyXEs/