152367 - text copied from browser loses linebreaks

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[tom wible]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

copying formatted text from a webpage & pasting into another
window(moz.mail.compose or bbedit or...) results in all text running together
onto 1 line...

this also occurs with the windoze version, but only if the target is not the
moz.mail.compose...


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy some text from a webpage
2. paste it into another window

Actual Results:  shows up as:

 DP25 is gonna be 4 discs of 5/10-11/78, due out in a few weeks. Also, coming up
early fall is View From the Vault III, 6/16/90 Shoreline with filler from
10/3/87 Shoreline. The 4 disc England '72 set "Steppin' Out with the Grateful
Dead" is coming out July 9th.



Expected Results:  the following 3 sentences, 7 lines (including blank lines):

 DP25 is gonna be 4 discs of 5/10-11/78, due out in a few weeks.

 Also, coming up early fall is View From the Vault III, 6/16/90 Shoreline
with filler from 10/3/87 Shoreline.

 The 4 disc England '72 set "Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead" is coming
out July 9th.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Tom, this is the intended behavior. On the web page, the text has no intrinsic
line breaks. The browser wraps the text to fit in your browser window.

When you copy the text, however, it remains in its' original, unwrapped form.
The paste destination application can then apply its' own soft wrapping.