1623311 - Whitespaces are not trimmed inside <div> and <p>

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

https://codepen.io/SaschaNaz/pen/MWwXEbW

Put <div>s and <p> like the below:

<div id="div">
  foo
</div>
<p>foo

1. Select the whole lines
2. Copy and paste it into any text box

Expected: "foo\nfoo" (or "foo\n\nfoo"?)
Actual: " foo\n\nfoo "

Comment 1

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623311#c0 happens on Windows, I guess. On Ubuntu it's "\nfoo\n\nfoo ".

It's presumably a bug in nsPlainTextSerializer, whitespace and newline handling there is a mess.

Chrome produces: "foo\nfoo".

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is P3 (Backlog,) indicating it has been triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to S3 (normal.)