247971 - clipboard copying the text doesnt include all css styles

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 406488

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Paul Goscicki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

The example page is CSS/XHTML validated. It is displayed 100% correctly in
Firefox 0.9 - but when you try to do the following: select all, copy, open
Microsoft Word, paste you loose 80% of information about the styles. Doing the
same in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 gives much better results. It seems that
Firefox doesn't properly copies web content (that uses CSS styles) into the
Windows XP's clipboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to example page
2. Select all
3. Copy
4. Open MS Word
5. Paste
Actual Results:  
All text has been copied and pasted correctly - but not styles (bolding, size of
letters, etc.).

Expected Results:  
Remember and paste text with all of the styles presented correctly.

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

I confirm your findings when trying the provided URL with MSIE 6 SP2 and with
Firefox 0.10.1 rv 1.7.3 build 20041006 and with MS-Word 2000. Interesting.
Somehow, MS-Word 2000 gets the command to fetch the style info of file
http://www.winexpress.com.pl/lista.css
when processing the paste command.
Note that the Wine Express page does not use rich semantic markup code.
A good working demopage/testcase could be created for this bug.

I would need to search for duplicates. There is no major loss of functionality
involved here. This bug is not specific to Firefox. I can reproduce it with
Mozilla 1.8a5 build 2004101206 under XP Pro SP2.
Also not sure if this would fit in XP Toolkit/Widgets component or in selection
component.

-> Product: Browser
-> component: Selection for further bug triaging

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1)  This has nothing to do with selection.  This is a serializer issue, since the
    selection is clearly correct.

2)  This is a duplicate.  Please find the original and mark this duplicate.

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

I can not find which bug is the original of this bug.

Also, if the linked stylesheet href is relative to the page location (like it is
in the provided URL of this bug), then another bug might be also active. bug
134457 ("Relative URLs in text output") might be involved here.

Comment 4

[Gérard Talbot]

> 2)  This is a duplicate.  Please find the original and mark this duplicate.

I've searched again and can not find the original for this bug.
This bug is not related to bug 134457 because the style sheet formating rules
are not fetched even when the linked stylesheet has an absolute url.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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