141862 - Copy of text from displayed table content to clipboard should insert tab separators between <tds>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94176

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[David Duffin]

Copying from a Mozilla-displayed table should insert tab characters to indicate
table cell boundaries, eg when copying the displayed 3-column table

Account                 Debit         Credit
-------                 -----         ------
104 Cash in Bank        25.00
200 Accts Receivable                    6.00


the text "6.00" should be preceded by two tab characters.  IE handles this
properly, so that the copied text from the page (eg a bank statement) can be
pasted by the user into a spreadsheet application.  This is critical to
Mozilla's use when displaying financial data.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To dom-to-text conversion

Comment 2

[Tanu Mutreja]

-->Myself
It seems to be an RFE than bug and as the reporter mentioned I don't see 2 tab 
characters anywhere with IE 5.0. I tried a simple test with a 2 * 3 table:
AAA     BBB      CCC
DDD              EEE
and the output was as follows:
With IE:
--------
AAA
 BBB
 CCC
 
DDDD
 
 EEEE

With MOZILLA:
--------------
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDDD

EEEE

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

This is a dup of bug 103522 that was marked as dup of bug 94176.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94176 ***

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified.