Steps to Reproduce
- Create a new page using any browser
- Type a text bold
- Select the text and bold the text
- Select the bold text and copy it
- Place your cursor after bold text (besides letter d)
- Ensure that the bold icon is turned on/selected and then press ENTER to go to the second paragraph
- Paste the text
- Copy the text that you pasted in the previous step
- Paste the text into the third paragraph
Expected Results
Bold texts should be displayed normally in Firefox. There should be no difference between the first, second, and third bold texts.
Actual Results
Instead, the texts are displayed in Firefox or IE as the following:
The second bold text is stronger than the first one
In Chrome, the texts are shown without any difference.
Environment Information
Chrome 26, Firefox 19, IE 9
Tested on Confluence 4.3.x and 5.0.x
Findings
By inspecting the Storage Format, we can see that the <strong> tags are used twice in the second paragraph, and thrice in the third paragraph.
<p>
<strong>bold</strong>
</p>
<p>
<strong>
<strong>bold</strong>
</strong>
</p>
<p>
<strong>
<strong>
<strong>
<strong>bold</strong>
</strong>
</strong>
</strong>
</p>
Workaround
Ensure that the bold icon in the editor is not selected/turned on when pasting a bold text
Bug
Low
Thank you for your interest in this ticket. The Confluence Server and Data Center team released a major upgrade to the editor in 6.14. Due to the age of this ticket and/or lack of updates, we suspect that this issue is no longer relevant or was resolved as a result of the upgrade and are now closing this ticket.
If this issue is still a problem in your Confluence instance in version 6.15 or later, please tag me in your comment and we can reopen this ticket for review.
You can read more about the editor upgrade in the 6.14 Release Notes.
Thanks
Makisa Appleton | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center