Merge cells doesn't work in FF when replaced textarea with inline editor

[Ales Seifert]

Tested in FF24 on

​http://nightly.ckeditor.com/13-11-03-07-05/full/samples/inlinetextarea.html

when selected few cells in one row and selected merge cells some JS exception is logged on console.

Same works OK in Chrome, not tested anywhere else.

Bug found from 4.0.1 (older not tested) to 4.3 beta.

[Jakub Ś]

I have checked this issue in latest Firefox 30 and latest CKEditor 4.4.2 full and standard packages. No such issue have occurred.

@alesak are you still able to reproduce this problem? Perhaps you are using third-party plugins, not created by CKSource team, which cause this problem?

[Richard Thiel]

Just found this ticket. Error is still active.

Other reference of this error I found - ​http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/9770

@j.swiderski: in the full and standard Sample the error don´t occur. Only in the INLINE-Version of the Editor the error occurs.

Error I get in the sample (​http://ckeditor.com/demo#inline): TypeError: a.getDocument is not a function ckeditor.js:858

Error I get in my own Project: TypeError: cell.getDocument is not a function plugin.js:402

Same problem, just not minified code ;)

Browser: Firefox 31.0 OS: Windows 8

I attach an Screenshot of the Inline-Sample with some other error that occurs but I think its linked to this error.

[Richard Thiel]

This happens, when I mark 2 or multiple cells from a table.

[Jonathan]

We are still seeing this in Firefox 30 with the Div Editing Area plugin which I assume is what others are referring to when they see this with inline editing. Another manifestation is that you cannot select multiple cells at a time and change the properties for them with the right-click menu. So if I want to change the background color of a row, I would have to change the background color for each cell individually.

[Jakub Ś]

Thank you for detailed explanation. Problem can be reproduced from CKEditor 4.0 beta only in Firefox.

1. Open inlinebycode sample
2. Insert 4x5 table
3. Select first and second cell in first row.
4. Right click on first cell and select Cell -> Merge Cells

Result: Error is thrown.

Message: cell.getDocument is not a function
Code: var docInner = cell.getDocument()
URI: /ckeditor-dev/plugins/tabletools/plugin.js
Line : 402

[Wiktor Walc]

Duplicate of #10745.