1071503 - MDN WYSIWYG copy and paste fails to preserve markup/styling in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

What did you do?
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1. Went to an MDN page
2. Clicked edit
3. Copied something from the WYSIWYG
4. Pasted it somewhere else (normal paste, not Shift+paste)

What happened?
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None of the markup/styling seems to be preserved, except for nbsp; and <br>. Everything else is stripped out.

What should have happened?
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It should paste the content with the markup/styling preserved. This is making creating reference documentation a complete pain in the ...

Is there anything else we should know?
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From testing we have done, this bug appears in Firefox Nightly on Mac/Linux, and Firefox final on Mac. It seems to work on Firefox final on Linux, and Nightly/release on Windows.

It works fine in Chrome ;-|

Comment 1

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

I cannot reproduce. On a Mac...

1) In Aurora, I copied content from Web Console and pasted[0]. It renders properly.

2) In Firefox 30, I copied content from Style Editor and pasted[0]. It renders properly.

3) In Firefox 32.0.3, I copied content from the Web Audio Editor and pasted[0]. It renders properly.

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/User:hoosteeno

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I wasn't able to reproduce it either, and I'm copying spec and compat tables on a regular basis (~5-10 times on bad weeks)

Comment 3

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

@cmills, are you still seeing this issue?

Comment 4

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

(In reply to Māris Fogels [:mars] from comment #3)
> @cmills, are you still seeing this issue?

I'm afraid so. I just made sure Nightly, Aurora and Production were up to date, then tried copy and paste again. Same issue in all three (Mac OSX.) This is really weird.

Comment 5

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I've done some more testing. copy and paste works fine on Nightly/Aurora/Production on my Windows and Ubuntu installs. But not on Mac OSX.

Any ideas? This is driving my insane. I can't do my work efficiently without the copy and paste feature. And my primary OS is Mac ;-(

Comment 6

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

Correction - it doesn't work on Nightly/Trunk on Ubuntu.

Comment 7

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

I have finally got my copy and paste functionality back! T fix it, I reset my Firefox profile; I suspect it was having e10s enabled that caused it; but it may have been something else.

Comment 8

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Thanks for updating, Chris!