Editing posts produces linebreak madness

[anonymousbugger]

When writing long lines, WordPress automagically inserts linebreaks. This screws up the formatting if you edit a post.

[michel v]

Could reproduce this behaviour with a trunk build, in Firefox.
Couldn't reproduce it in any other browser except Gecko-based ones.

So it looks like Firefox (or [insert Gecko browser name here]) adds linebreaks in the textarea when it renders it.
When WP receives the updated content, it sees linebreaks and adds br tags.

This looks like a Gecko-specific bug, that, given the platform's marketshare, ought to be worked around in WP.

[mdawaffe]

The problem is generated by the javascript introduced in changeset 2536: ​http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2536. Downgrading to a prior revision restored functionality: svn up -r 2535

EDIT: typos

edited on: 04-17-05 00:05

[anonymousbugger]

I only tested it with Epiphany.

Shouldn't that commit get reverted?

[MC_incubus]

I say we kill it, and wait for a 1.6 or at least a 1.5.2 release to really flesh this out better, maybe even exploring an AJAX solution. No use delaying the 1.5.1 release because of bugs introduced by a brand new experimental feature.

Please don't flame me. :-)

[ryan]

​http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2559

[matt]

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