Internet Explorer 7 failures with bold and italic features of the graphical markup toolbar

Posted by Graham Perrin on Jan 31, 2009; 5:11pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/resolved-Nabble-message-composition-if-text-selection-begins-at-character-1-then-selection-is-not-rep-tp2250465p2250524.html

The previously mentioned workaround is

 • effective in Safari 3.2.1 (5525.27.1) and WebKit nightly and and Firefox 3.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Intel

 • not effective in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP.

A click on the B or I or Link buttons of the toolbar causes Internet Explorer to drop a warning that prompts the user to Temporarily Allow Scripted Windows.

Following the temporarily allowance:

 • selected text in any part of the IE message composition window can not be marked bold using the graphical toolbar

 • selected text in any part of the IE message composition window can not be marked italic using the graphical toolbar.

This warning re-presents following a reload, so I guess that the warning may present for any/every message composition in Internet Explorer 7.

Summary: IE is more severely bugged.