Closed Bug 1071503 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

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

Categories

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

Product:
developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: cmills, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [specification][type:bug]) 

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 ;-|
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
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)
@cmills, are you still seeing this issue?
Flags: needinfo?(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.
Flags: needinfo?(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 ;-(
Correction - it doesn't work on Nightly/Trunk on Ubuntu.
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.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Thanks for updating, Chris!
Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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