I've been typing out some particularly richly-formatted emails in Gmail recently, and the bugs in Chrome's contentEditible=true
rich-text-formatting heuristics are really starting to drive me to distraction.
For example, there's absolutely no way to create a new list item, then add a nested list item, then "access" the paragraph-space of the parent list item.
What's really making me want to throw Google's datacenters into the nearest large river, however, is the fact that if I try to use the clipboard to move things around and try fix them when they start breaking, well, they start getting even more broken, because behind the scenes the browser thinks I want to split the <li>
s up into multiple <ul>
s (and a few thousand <div>
s as well, since Chrome is so modern). And so pasting a nested list pastes it into the paragraph before the parent list (which you don't discover until you scroll up and discover it innocently sitting there). And then repeated attempts eventually breaks the list into a series of cute, un-bulleted paragraphs.
So, what can I do to give Gmail a "switch to raw HTML" mode, or (more preferably, since I'm not interested in figuring out a thousand <div style="background-color: rgb(...)">
s), is there something I can use as a Gmail-compatible WYSIWYG editor, which will let me graphically edit with some sanity?