384496 - Formatted text copied from a desktop application (i.e. Word, TextEdit, etc.) looses formatting when pasted into a designMode enabled element.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 428096

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Steven Elliott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

When I copy formatted text from Word, TextEdit etc. and then  try to paste the text into a designMode enabled element (i.e. iframe) the text is pasted without formatting.

When I perform the same operation in Windows, FF pastes correctly formatted text.

When I perform the same operation in OSX with Safari the text is pasted with the correct formatting.

FireFox will copy/paste formatted text correctly IF THE TEXT IS COPIED FROM FIREFOX ITSELF.  In otherwords FF will retain formatting on OSX only if the text is copied/pasted from the FF application.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a simple HTML document with a designMode enabled element (i.e. iframe)
2.Copy formatted text from a desktop application (i.e. Word, TextEdit)
3.Paste the text into the designMode enabled element.
Actual Results:  
Text is pasted into FF but with no formatting.

Expected Results:  
Text is pasted with copied formatting.

Comment 1

[Steven Elliott]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[arturo flores]

I can confirm this bug, would like to see a solution for it.

Comment 3

[Al]

Same as bug 428096?

Comment 5

[Al]

If you haven't voted for the duplicate of this bug (bug #428096), please do so.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=428096#vote_428096

I am hoping to raise the attention and importance of this issue and hopefully get the HTML, styl, rtf, img function of the Firefox clipboard finally fixed.

Thanks for helping.