Open Bug 204974 Opened 22 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Specifying Default Text Color colors all the text in replies

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: thomas.swan, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030508 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030508 After Specifying a Default Text Style for new mail compositions using the Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Composition options, replying to a plain text message colors the original senders response to the new preferences. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Send a plain text message to yourself (a paragraph or so) 2. Change your default composition style color to something (like blue) 3. Reply to the plain text message Actual Results: The original text from the sender is now in your specified color. Expected Results: The original text should have been in the original style with or without color and only the new text (reply text) should be colored in the specified style. N/A
The text color is also changed for HTML messages where no text color was specified, not just plain text. Changing summary accordingly...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Specifying Default Text Color colors all the text in plain text replies → Specifying Default Text Color colors all the text in replies
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
I thought this had been fixed (hadn't seen it in Seamonkey or Thunderbird for months) but it's showing up again in the Mac nightly for 20040331. This is a regression from the Thunderbird 0.5 milestone release, as I haven't seen it in nearly a year.
Same problem occurs in 20040411 in Thunderbird. It appears to be more than just a fluke with one or two nightlies, since it has been present for more than a week.
This occurs with version 1.7 but did not with 1.6 (using windows xp - just installed version 1.7 hoping to stop anomalies with text editing)
This is still occurring in Moz 1.7.3, and Thunderbird 0.8
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
(In reply to comment #0) > Expected Results: > The original text should have been in the original style with or without color > and only the new text (reply text) should be colored in the specified style. This really doesn't make much sense -- a plain text message does not *have* an "original style or color" by definition. If the original message is format=flowed, the original text is treated like unformatted HTML and the reply's quoted text is shown in a proportional font. If the original message is just plain text, the original text is shown in a fixed-width font to preserve any possible "ASCII-art" or indentation that might have been integral to the original. This is handled by putting the text in a <pre> block, not by specifying a font. In both these cases, the fonts actually used are the ones that would apply if you were composing new HTML mail. In fact, if the original message is HTML, the reply text's font (whatever's specified with <font> tags in the text) will appear as sent; the rest will be according to your compose (and other) preferences. Colors and such specified at the <body> of the original will not be carried over. (I'm ignoring the possibility of style sheets with the original message or in your system.) Moving this bug to Core.
Component: MailNews: Main Mail Window → MailNews: Composition
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Core
*** Bug 274057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"
QA Contact: esther → composition
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Bug still persists in version 17.0.4, 10 years later.
howdy y'all, setup ... os = win7x32, sp1 tbird = 17.0.4 ua = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 this problem hits me on those very few occasions when i reply to a plaintext msg using HTML. STR [Steps To Reproduce] ... - send a plaintext msg to yourself with a few sentences in it - change your reply color to something very visible [i used red] ---- tools/options/composition/general/html/text-color = RED - get msgs for that account until your test msg shows up - hilite the msg - reply to the msg in HTML note that at this point the quoted text is all in read, but the reply header [subject/from/to/date] is still black. the cursor will be blinking in the user-selected reply position and will be red. if you slow your system down with one of the go-slow utilities, you can see that the reply header starts off in red and is re-written in black just before the text entry cursor becomes usable. a mozillazine thread about this is here ... <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2679539&p=12753005#p12753005">Bug: Colour changed of quoted text • mozillaZine Forums</a> take care, lee
Severity: normal → S3
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