1211737 - A user-select none adds spurious line breaks when copying text from a pre element

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect, P3)

Description

[xixixao]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150929144111

Steps to reproduce:

Select content inside of a <pre> element which includes -moz-user-select:none elements.

Try at:
http://jsbin.com/domurahiwa/edit?html,output



Actual results:

For each block of these non-selectable elements a spurious new line is inserted into the copied text.


Expected results:

There should be only new lines from the original source inside of the <pre> element.

Comment 1

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 3

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia), offline until April 25h]

This is likely an artifact of Firefox creating multiple ranges.