Thread:Extension talk:WYSIWYG/1.5.6 - Formatting erases text

I'm using MW 1.16.5 and WYSIWYG 1.5.6 and have noticed the following issue in only Chrome so far.

If you use the editor to italicize or bold a word, continue typing, and then use the editor to remove that formatting, all of the text after that first italicized/bolded word vanishes when previewing. It's not in the article preview window and not in the editing box anymore.

These are the steps that lets me reproduce it 100% of the time in Chrome: 1. Open a section of a page to edit 2. Type in some random text 3. Highlight a portion of the word and hit the italic button 4. Type some more words 5. Highlight these new words and hit the italic button again to remove the formatting (Chrome also does not let me just turn off formatting on an empty space. I have to highlight text and manually remove the italics to get the normal font again) 6. Hit preview. All added text after that italicized part is removed.

I checked with both bold and italics and they both behave the same way. I suspect underline and such would as well. So far, this bug only appears in Chrome. I have not had this issue in Firefox.

Any ideas? A lot of my users prefer Chrome and several of them have reported this issue.

I'm not sure if it's related, but I also find in Chrome that the text formatting options like italicize and bold do not work unless you first highlight text. If you try to activate or deactivate the format while on empty space, the button does nothing. 72.209.57.40 04:55, 12 January 2012 (UTC)