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When I Ctrl+U it opens View Source, but I need to Underline things.

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TheJackM4
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I was writing in blog post and needed to Underline something and it opened View Source. I opened several other pages and it happened on all of them. Not sure if Firefox didn't recognize wordpress's text editor as a text editor, if there is a different Underline shortcut or if they are just doubled up and View Source takes precedent.

I was writing in blog post and needed to Underline something and it opened View Source. I opened several other pages and it happened on all of them. Not sure if Firefox didn't recognize wordpress's text editor as a text editor, if there is a different Underline shortcut or if they are just doubled up and View Source takes precedent.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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The View Source feature doesn't provide for editing the source which is being viewed. Not intended for HTML editing and / or saving of edits.

You can used an external source editor application and use an extension such as this to have Firefox use the external editor. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/withexeditor/

FredMcD
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Or, you can open a Word type editor, do what you want (better control) and after copy the message to Firefox.