Entering style attribute that begins with a semicolon causes the XML editor to delete the style attribute

[Will Pittenger]

If you use the XML editor to manually set the style of an object and the style string begins with a semicolon, Inkscape 0.47 clears the style instead of setting it. It appears the semicolon causes the parser to conclude the entire string is blank. Conversely, if the string ends with a semicolon, Inkscape will strip it out. The same behavior should be used when the semicolon begins the string. I assume that a TrimRight and TrimLeft functions are available that can remove both spaces and semicolons.

I am using Vista SP2 64-bit.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

Still repro. I wrote it like ;opacity.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Replicated in 0.92.4, Windows 10. Not replicated in 1.1-dev (c990a67, 2020-04-09), the style tag is ignored, but not deleted on save or when opening with the XML editor.

I've filed a new issue in inbox for the ignored style tag: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2304

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger