Horizontal Rule Selection

[gogo]

Need a way to reliabilty work with <hr> in the editor. My current thought is that we could use a transparent gif in place of <hr>? Anybody got better ideas?

To see the problem, use the Example, insert a horizontal rule and try working with it.

I have submitted a bugzilla report about this.

[anonymous]

How about an empty div with a border?

<div style="border-top:1px solid green;" />

[gogo]

The problem is that you can't "click on" the line to select it (and move/delete it) as you would expect to be able to. A bordered-div won't help with that.

[niko]

can this be fixed by xinha?

[gogo]

We can't fix the hr problem itself, but I think we could make something SIMILAR by using an image or something.

It's really a big PITA because if mozilla would just fix the problem thier end it wouldn't be a problem.

[wymsy]

I have written a HorizontalRule? plugin that does not exhibit this problem. It lets you set the width, alignment, height, color and shading attributes, and I have had no problem selecting existing hr's for editing or deleting. I'm attaching the key files, sorry, I haven't had time to zip up a package.

[anonymous]

OK, here's the package in a zip file. Use this file, the earlier edit_horizontal_rule.html might have a small problem.

[wymsy]

HorizontalRules? plugin

[gogo]

Thanks wymsy, your plugin is good and will be included. However it doesn't solve the problem. The problem is exhibited in Gecko, simply it is not possible to "click on" the <hr> to select it in the same way you would select for instance an image, they also have trouble with backspacing "over" them.

See the bugzilla report about this.

PS: If you'd like committ access to the subversion, let me know - james@…

[anonymous]

OK, I see your point. It's not a 100% solution in that you don't get resizing handles and you can't drag and drop, but it does provide a workaround. What I am seeing with my plugin is that I can select a rule with a double-click and delete it or edit its attributes in the popup, and I can also backspace over it to delete it. I have tested in Firefox 1.0 on Mac OS X, and Firefox 1.0.4 on Win 2k. So it's a bit different from IE, where a single click works, but otherwise everything works and you can achieve the desired end result.

[wymsy]

Checked in in changeset 347.

imho, we shouldn't hack xinha to compensate for a missing feature in Gecko. This plugin provides a very usable workaround, and from the user's standpoint provides the needed editing functionality.

[wymsy]

In the interest of getting xinha 1.0 released, and because nobody else has commented on this in a year, I am closing this. If anyone disagrees, feel free to reopen.

[anonymous]

I'm gonna reopen it, but I think it can be pushed back to 2.0, I don't think it's worth holding back 1.0 for it either, but is something we need to figure a way around sometime.

[gogo]

anonymous == gogo :-)

[ray]

rev [716]: I think this quite simple solution does fix this issue sufficiently