1569175 - Copying part of text from elements with white-space:pre-wrap results in loss of newlines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1174452

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[gelraen.ua]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

Similar issues have been fixed before:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116083
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174452

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space
2. In demo box click "white-space: pre-wrap;"
3. Select and copy full demo text on the right, paste it in text editor
4. Select and copy a few lines from the middle of the demo text, paste them in text editor too

Actual results:

In the first case (full text) newlines are preserved, but in the second - text get collapsed into a single line.

Expected results:

In both cases newlines should be preserved properly.

Comment 1

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

Hi,

I cannot reproduce the issue, since it has been fixed in Firefox 68 (Bug 1174452)
Could you please update your Firefox to the latest version and check again?

Thank you!