1646515 - Copying a styled `<table>` to the clipboard drops style

Status: REOPENED

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Attachment: firefox to chrome.mov

Affected versions]
release 77.0a1,
beta 78.0b8 (64-bit),
nightly 79.0a1 (2020-06-17) (64-bit)

[Affected platforms]
( macOS 10.14 (Mojave))

[Steps to reproduce]

1- Launch the Firefox Browser
2- Open https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets in firefox and an online html editor such as https://html-online.com/editor/ in chrome.
3- Create a table in google docs from firefox and copy in online editor from chrome.
4- Format does not respect original selection.

Now the other way around:
1- Launch chrome Browser
2- Open https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets in chrome and an online html editor such as https://html-online.com/editor/ in ff.
3- Create a table in google docs from chrome and copy in online editor from ff.
4- Format respects original selection.

[Expected result]
table should be pasted accordingly from chrome to ff, and from ff to chrome.

[Actual result]
Selection pasted is not correct.

Comment 1

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Attachment: chrome to ff.mov

Comment 2

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

This issue is reproducible on Nightly 80.0a1 (2020-07-22)(32-bit). I'll change flags accordingly.

Comment 3

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Reproduces on Windows 7 using the latest Firefox 81 beta and Nightly 82.0a1.

Comment 4

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia), offline until April 25h]

This issue isn't specific for copying from Firefox to Chrome. It also happens when copying from on tab in Firefox to another tab. The CSS are dropped.

Reproducible by copying a styled table (e.g. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp) to data:text/html,<div contenteditable>x</div>.

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

Freddy, you probably want to look at this as part of your sanitizer work.

Comment 8

[Florencia Di Ciocco, NI to vbalducci]

If I create a table in excel in Chrome with a hyperlink in one of the cells (=HIPERVINCULO("https://www.facebook.com/ ";" [link]")), when I paste it to FF, only [link] is copied, underlined and blue.

Comment 9

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser-Igalia), offline until April 25h]

Couldn't reproduce the issue anymore.

Comment 10

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Please note that the issue still occurs for certain stylings when copied across browser. Below you can see my findings:
Use a customized table (with table border colors).

From Chrome - Gsheet to Fx - Gsheet

• table border color is lost

From Chrome Ghseet to Fx - Office sheet

• outside border color is lost, inside border color is kept
• alignment is lost
• bolded link styling is lost

Comment 11

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop QA [:atrif]]

Attachment: header_00.gif

Also, header styling is not displayed as well when copied from the Excel Firefox tab to another Firefox Google Sheet tab on 93.0b6. See attached screen recording.

Comment 13

[David Shin[:dshin]]

Test case from bug 1786890 still exhibiting this on 106.0a1

Comment 14

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:hsivonen, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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