192991 - Single space character inserted in front of text copied from table, pasted into Notepad

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Henry Pfeil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Copy text from a table, paste into Notepad, mystery <space> inserted at
beginning of line. Tried the same thing in IE6, no mystery <space>.

Source shows a simple 2-column table.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy line from table
2. Paste into Notepad
3. Observe mystery space inserted at beginning of text

Actual Results:  
 <-- that space should not appear

Expected Results:  
<-- no space

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->DOM to Text Conversion

Comment 2

[Henry Pfeil]

I copied half a dozen bookmarks from Mozilla's bookmark manager. When I pasted
them into Wordpad, they were in reverse order, top-down --> bottom-up. I
replicated this in Linux KDE, pasted to a text window.

Comment 3

[coolynx]

Looks quite an old bug. Now it has come back.

This "misterious space" before the line appeared starting from some Firefox
1.0PR versions. Annoying bug. Wastes a lot of time to delete every time you copy
anything!

Still exists in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926
Firefox/0.10

Comment 4

[coolynx]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This "misterious space" before the line appeared starting from some Firefox
> 1.0PR versions.

Just tested some sites and find out that this bug appears only on sites with
UTF-8 encoding.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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