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Bug 72772 - VisualEditor: No indication in the toolbar what text styles are active because they're in a menu
VisualEditor: No indication in the toolbar what text styles are active becaus...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low minor
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
: design
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2014-10-30 19:05 UTC by Quiddity
Modified: 2014-10-31 16:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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2014-10-30 19:05 UTC, Quiddity
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Description Quiddity 2014-10-30 19:05:27 UTC
Created attachment 16960 [details]
screenshot

Screenshot show my cursor within a string of bold text. However the toolbar menu button doesn't change to indicate that text-formatting is currently active. 

This is particularly a problem if I place my cursor at the *end* of a string of bold/formatted text, as I cannot know at-a-glance, whether the text I'm about to type will come out formatted in some way.

In many other programs/sites (eg. gmail, gdoc), there is always an onscreen indicator (usually the button appears "pressed"), which helps me understand whether text-formatting is active or not.
Comment 1 James Forrester 2014-10-31 16:44:53 UTC
The button also appears pressed in VisualEditor, it's just that it's pushed down to a sub-menu so it's not obvious. This is the same as e.g. Google Mail's editing interface, but it can be a bit perplexing, yes.

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