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VisualEditor:The format of the text does not change if the cursor is at the end of the text though the options are highlighted in the menu
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Description

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Steps to reproduce:

1.Place the cursor at the end of the text or in the beginning or in the middle of a text
2.Now select any or all of the options from More>Computer Code/Strikethrough/Underline/Superscript/Subscript

Observed Result:

Observe that all the options are highlighted in the menu bar but the text format does not change accordingly.If the format of the text is not suppose to change, providing way to disable to the highlight will be better

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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Screen_Shot_2013-11-29_at_2.14.52_PM.png (879×1 px, 279 KB)

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bz57759

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:31 AM
• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.
• bzimport set Reference to bz57759.
Ryasmeen created this task.Nov 29 2013, 10:20 PM
Ryasmeen added a comment.Nov 29 2013, 10:20 PM

Test Environment: production
Browser: Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65
OS: MAC OS X 10. 8. 5
Example Page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RYasmeen_%28WMF%29/pawn?veaction=edit

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 24 2014, 4:31 PM
nshahquinn-wmf closed this task as Resolved.Jul 24 2015, 1:18 AM
nshahquinn-wmf set Security to None.
nshahquinn-wmf subscribed.Jul 24 2015, 1:20 AM

It looks like a formatting button like "subscript" is highlighted if a character typed in the cursor's current location would have that formatting. This seems like a sensible behavior.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor pre-2015 work.Aug 5 2015, 12:36 AM
Jdforrester-WMF edited a custom field.Aug 11 2015, 10:14 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.Aug 13 2015, 12:25 AM
Jdforrester-WMF edited a custom field.
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