Does anybody know how Tbird 2 parses text into tables on a reply?

When I reply to a message, there are colored bars which seem to
indicate how many ">>>" levels there are in various portions of
text of the incoming message.

However, it also sometimes creates tables with red boxes around
the text, so that when I try to drag the mouse over various parts
of the previous message, it may or may not highlight, it's very
difficult to edit-down the text of the incoming message.

Is there some way to modify this parsing of the incoming message?

TIA!

Paul Kinzelman keyboarded, On 7/23/2008 12:52 PM :
> Does anybody know how Tbird 2 parses text into tables on a reply?
>
> When I reply to a message, there are colored bars which seem to
> indicate how many ">>>" levels there are in various portions of
> text of the incoming message.
>
> However, it also sometimes creates tables with red boxes around
> the text, so that when I try to drag the mouse over various parts
> of the previous message, it may or may not highlight, it's very
> difficult to edit-down the text of the incoming message.
>
> Is there some way to modify this parsing of the incoming message?
>
> TIA!

Those red boxes may indicate the message is HTML, not plain text. Try
switching your view mode using View > Message Body As... and picking
Plain Text.

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Ron K.
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> Those red boxes may indicate the message is HTML, not plain text. Try
> switching your view mode using View > Message Body As... and picking
> Plain Text.
>

That helps some, but there's still a table around one of the forwarded
message headers when I do a reply.

And when I set it to view in text, when I forward, the HTML part
of the message (I assume) gets forwarded as an attachment. That's
even though I've got Tools | Options | Composition set to
Forward messages: Inline

Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>> Those red boxes may indicate the message is HTML, not plain text.
>> Try switching your view mode using View > Message Body As... and
>> picking Plain Text.
>>
>
> That helps some, but there's still a table around one of the forwarded
> message headers when I do a reply.
>
> And when I set it to view in text, when I forward, the HTML part
> of the message (I assume) gets forwarded as an attachment. That's
> even though I've got Tools | Options | Composition set to
> Forward messages: Inline
maybe it was a forwarded attached msg, you view inline. So it's just
forwarding with respective msg attached.

Paul Kinzelman keyboarded, On 7/23/2008 1:41 PM :
>> Those red boxes may indicate the message is HTML, not plain text.
>> Try switching your view mode using View > Message Body As... and
>> picking Plain Text.
>>
>
> That helps some, but there's still a table around one of the forwarded
> message headers when I do a reply.
>
> And when I set it to view in text, when I forward, the HTML part
> of the message (I assume) gets forwarded as an attachment. That's
> even though I've got Tools | Options | Composition set to
> Forward messages: Inline

Even when composing a forward inline of a message the red outlined table
will be visible for both Text and HTML composition. What happens at
send time is for plain text that table disappears and the recipient will
not see it. Appears it's designed to give structure for the header
content being forwarded with the original message body.

--
Ron K.
Who is General Failure, and why is he searching my HDD?
Kernel Restore reported Major Error used BSOD to msg the enemy!