298546 - Wrong clipboard content while copying pages containing IFRAMEs

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Andrew Fedoniouk.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If source page (e.g. front page of http://nytimes.com) contains iframes with
alternative content like:

<iframe src="...">
  <script>...</script>
  <noscript>...</noscript>
</iframe>

and user is trying to put this content into clipboard then
the clipboard contains CF_HTML formatted text given as:

<iframe src="...">
&lt;script&gt;...&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;...&lt;/noscript&gt;
</iframe>

as you may see text is wrongly escaped - it should match original.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://nytimes.com in FireFox.
2. Press Ctrl-A to select text in full.
3. Press Ctrl-C to copy it into clipboard.
4. Paste clipboard content into any UA do not supporting IFRAMEs. E.g. 
http://blocknote.net application or 
http://www.evernote.com/en/products/evernote/ application.
5. Note that non-intended iframe content appears. 

Actual Results:  
<iframe src="...">
&lt;script&gt;...&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;...&lt;/noscript&gt;
</iframe>

Expected Results:  
<iframe src="...">
  <script>...</script>
  <noscript>...</noscript>
</iframe>


N/A

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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