diff --git a/mozilla/editor/idl/nsIHTMLEditor.idl b/mozilla/editor/idl/nsIHTMLEditor.idl
index 8afaee71774..56c07e76c9a 100644
--- a/mozilla/editor/idl/nsIHTMLEditor.idl
+++ b/mozilla/editor/idl/nsIHTMLEditor.idl
@@ -570,5 +570,7 @@ interface nsIHTMLEditor : nsISupports
   void removeInsertionListener(in nsIContentFilter inFilter);
 
   nsIDOMCSSStyleRule parseStyleAttrIntoCSSRule(in AString aString);
+
+  boolean isAnonymousElement(in nsIDOMElement aElement);
 };
 
diff --git a/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp b/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
index ccb738765b1..b3749621443 100644
--- a/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.cpp
@@ -6178,3 +6178,11 @@ nsHTMLEditor::EndUpdateViewBatch()
   return res;
 }
 
+NS_IMETHODIMP
+nsHTMLEditor::IsAnonymousElement(nsIDOMElement * aElement, PRBool * aReturn)
+{
+  NS_ENSURE_TRUE(aElement, NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER);
+  nsCOMPtr<nsIContent> content = do_QueryInterface(aElement);
+  *aReturn = content->IsNativeAnonymous();
+  return NS_OK;
+}
diff --git a/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.h b/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.h
index e6acad1c306..8d15b3e27a0 100644
--- a/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.h
+++ b/mozilla/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditor.h
@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ public:
   NS_IMETHOD AddInsertionListener(nsIContentFilter *aFilter);
   NS_IMETHOD RemoveInsertionListener(nsIContentFilter *aFilter);
 
+  NS_IMETHOD IsAnonymousElement(nsIDOMElement * aElement, PRBool * aReturn);
+
   /* ------------ nsIEditorIMESupport overrides -------------- */
   
   NS_IMETHOD SetCompositionString(const nsAString& aCompositionString, nsIPrivateTextRangeList* aTextRangeList,nsTextEventReply* aReply);
diff --git a/mozilla/editor/ui/composer/content/editor.js b/mozilla/editor/ui/composer/content/editor.js
index 59b73d71e96..253eb086367 100644
--- a/mozilla/editor/ui/composer/content/editor.js
+++ b/mozilla/editor/ui/composer/content/editor.js
@@ -3359,7 +3359,9 @@ function GetSelectionContainer()
 
   // and make sure the element is not a special editor node like
   // the <br> we insert in blank lines
-  while (result.node.hasAttribute("_moz_editor_bogus_node"))
+  // and don't select anonymous content !!! (fix for bug 190279)
+  while (result.node.hasAttribute("_moz_editor_bogus_node") ||
+         editor.isAnonymousElement(result.node))
     result.node = result.node.parentNode;
 
   return result;