Closed
Bug 103522
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
copying from tables adds no whitespace between cells
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)
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Future
People
(Reporter: jruderman, Assigned: mjudge)
References
Details
Steps to reproduce: Select a few lines of a table in a bug list and paste them into a text editor. Or, select a few columns of a bug list (by holding control as you make the selection). Result: 27610 norP3VERIDUPLUser Int0---DOS shortcuts for cut, copy, paste not implemented 27655 triP3VERIFIXEBrowser-0---Can copy empty string from location bar 28759 enhP3VERIWONTNetworki0---[enhancement] geturl.exe: http headers 28763 norP2NEWQuery/Bu1Bugzilla 2.16Query page, location of submit button I get the same result whether I use normal text selection (click-drag) or table cell selection (ctrl+click-drag). Expected result: 27610 nor P3 VERI DUPL User Int 0 --- DOS shortcuts for cut, copy, paste not implemented 27655 tri P3 VERI FIXE Browser- 0 --- Can copy empty string from location bar 28759 enh P3 VERI WONT Networki 0 --- [enhancement] geturl.exe: http headers 28763 nor P2 NEW Query/Bu 1 Bugzilla 2.16 Query page, location of submit button [a space between two cells in the same row, and a newline between two cells in different rows.] or 27610 nor P3 VERI DUPL User Int 0 --- DOS shortcuts for cut, copy, paste not implemented 27655 tri P3 VERI FIXE Browser- 0 --- Can copy empty string from location bar 28759 enh P3 VERI WONT Networki 0 --- [enhancement] geturl.exe: http headers 28763 nor P2 NEW Query/Bu 1 Bugzilla 2.16 Query page, location of submit button [extra spaces added to make the columns line when in a fixed-width font is used]
Comment 1•23 years ago
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Space padding table cells is next to useless if you expect to actually DO anything with the cells afterwards. I think it should really be a tab placed in between cells in the same row. That way Excel will get the hint when you decide to paste the cells into a worksheet. If people want to reformat from there, that's cool. And I agree, this IS a major bug. Copy and paste of selections should work with no problems, no matter what's being selected. Right now selecting anything in a table doesn't yield anything useful, so you pretty much can't do it.
pretty printing of selection marking as future
Target Milestone: --- → Future
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Comment 3•23 years ago
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Nick: I'd prefer if Mozilla didn't use tabs between cells. I often only copy one or two rows, in which case tabs would be ugly. (Tabs are often ugly when pasting an entire table as well, because they stagger the columns by random multiples of 5 or 8 spaces.) Can we give Excel something other than text/plain so that the table cell pattern can be retained exactly *when pasting into Excel*? mjudge: This isn't "pretty printing of selection", it's being able to copy text out of tables.
Comment 4•23 years ago
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Jesse: I agree completely, this bug is really important. Copying text out of tables right now yields gibberish. It is 100% broken. I can see your point about copying out a few lines of text to paste into an e-mail or something. However, it seems to me that it would be a simple matter of find/replacing the tabs to remove them. Or you could paste them into Excel and export a space-delimited file. Or you could use the fmt command in Unix to make the spaces into tabs. There are lots of solutions for this problem because the standard way of representing a table in text format is using tabs and newlines. The point, really, is that it's almost impossible to get the tabs in there if they aren't added by the browser, while taking them out is trivial. Imagine copying a table the size of some large Bugzilla querys. Would you want to go through and figure out which spaces needed to be tabs so you could import that into Excel, if indeed that's what you wanted to do with it? It would be faster to write a Perl script to do that for you, or even to parse the HTML. FWIW, IE5 Mac adds tabs between cells. I think Mozilla should too.
Comment 5•23 years ago
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*** Bug 122002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 7•22 years ago
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*** Bug 136830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8•22 years ago
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This is actually a jfrancis bug: the document encoder isn't including the <td> or <tr> information into the copy context so that the serializer knows to insert the correct whitespace. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94176 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 9•22 years ago
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Akkana's comment is incorrect. The encoder is doing the right thing. Between her code and my code thought, the clipboard and parser are involved. The parser is the one dropping the table structure. See bug 94176.
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