In our rich-text editor (used in Firefox for designMode and
contenteditable), when the user hits Enter, we have historically always
inserted a <br>. This does not match any other browsers, which use <p> or
<div> as line separators. In bug 1297414, I'm changing our behavior to use
<div> as a line separator. This matches Blink/WebKit.
So if you have the text "foobar" and hit Enter in between the "foo" and the
"bar", previously you would get "foo<br>bar", and soon you will get
"<div>foo</div><div>bar</div>". The defaultParagraphSeparator command can
be used to change the separator to "p" instead (which matches Edge's
default behavior last I checked).
Pages or embedders that want to keep the old behavior can run the following
command: document.execCommand("defaultParagraphSeparator", false, "br").
This change is not likely to affect high-profile sites that use rich-text
editing (webmail etc.), because due to browser incompatibility, these sites
all override this behavior anyway.
Our new behavior is as specified in the essentially unmaintained editing
specification that I wrote several years ago, and tested by the
web-platform-tests editing suite. (Except that the "br" value to
defaultParagraphSeparator is unspecified, and is a Mozilla-specific
extension for backwards compatibility.)
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