730257 - javascript selectNodeContents & copy-paste adds 4 spaces indentation (phpbb code tag "select all" issue)

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Savvas Radevic]

Attachment: doesnot_work.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Build ID: 20120216101208

Steps to reproduce:

Go to any phpbb forum topic that uses a bbcode code tag.
Examples:
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/adding-custom-bbcodes-in-phpbb3/
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=579376
any topic from http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46


Actual results:

By clicking "select all" for code tags in any phpbb forum and if you copy-paste the selected code/text, it prepends 4 spaces on every line of selected code/text.



Expected results:

It should not preprend 4 space characters.

Note: There is a workaround that uses setStart and setEnd (attached), but I believe that this is a Firefox bug with selectNodeContents, since it doesn't occur with Chrome/Chromium nor Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Savvas Radevic]

Attachment: Workaround with setStart and setEnd

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Looks like this is still happening in FF 23 and in the current Nightly.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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