143151 - when "save as plaintext", format tables

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18012

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Beverly Kerr]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
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I obtain lots of numeric data from web pages such as the one above.  The
provider of this page and many many others I use does not provide an option for
spreadsheet or flat file download.  Instead, they publish in html tables.  Using
old versions of Netscape (4.75 for example), I can save this page as a txt file
and open it in my spreadsheet (123) and it will parse almost perfectly cleanly.
 In Mozilla (and later Netscape), this same page cannot be saved as a cleanly
parsing txt file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://mo.works.state.mo.us/lmi/owa/adb.laus_monthly_data
2. File / Save page as / Save as type: txt file / Filename: whatever.txt 


Actual Results:  3. Open whatever.txt in Lotus 123.  
4. In Txt file parsing options window:  select Automatically parse based on file
layout.
4. File will open with data messed up and requiring substantial manipulation to
be usable.
 

Expected Results:  Mozilla should save a page as a txt file the way Netscape
4.75 does, i.e. , numeric data from a page such as this one will parse cleanly
when opened in a spreadsheet.  Don't tell me to use Microsoft Excel.

Comment 1

[John Levon]

the problem is not rendering the table

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18012 ***