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In firefox 57.0b4 beta version , i find some changes in handling content editable div line breaks handling .... but i found the following issue

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Earlier , pressing enter adds br tag Now it adds <div><br></div> Consider a html

test1
<br>
test2
<br>
<test3>

Place cursor before test2 , press backspace , test2 goes to previous line html becomes

test1test2
<br>
test3

Now place cursor between test1 and test2 and press enter, both test1 and test2 becomes wrapped inside <div></div> but the <br> before test3 is removed , The html becomes

<div>test1</div>
<div>test2</div>
test3


Please look in to this ...

Earlier , pressing enter adds br tag Now it adds &lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Consider a html <pre><nowiki>test1 <br> test2 <br> <test3> </nowiki></pre> Place cursor before test2 , press backspace , test2 goes to previous line html becomes <pre><nowiki> test1test2 <br> test3 </nowiki></pre> Now place cursor between test1 and test2 and press enter, both test1 and test2 becomes wrapped inside &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; but the &lt;br&gt; before test3 is removed , The html becomes <pre><nowiki> <div>test1</div> <div>test2</div> test3 </nowiki></pre> Please look in to this ...

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You can press Shift+Enter to get a <br> tag. Enter is supposed to open a new block.

See the discussion in this bug report:

  • bug 1297414 - Generate <p>/<div> for newlines, not <br> (defaultParagraphSeparator) [55]

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
)

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