252926 - Dragging text from inside <a name></a> grabs name attribute

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select some of the bold header text by any commenter (ex: the first one I see
is "Courtesy of Ellen Feiss")
2. Drag the text anywhere... location bar, tab, another application with text input
3. Instead of the selected text being pasted, numbers from the link at the end
of the header are pasted ("9734851" in this example)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040723
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The markup is:

  <A NAME="9734851"><B>Courtesy of Ellen Feiss</B></A>

So we think we're dragging an anchor and end up dragging the anchor's name
(which is desirable for actual anchors).

My build with the patch for bug 251775 isn't showing this problem (since it
checks for a reasonable href attribute before deciding that an <a> is an anchor).

Comment 2

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Aha, I should have looked at the markup more closely... amending summary.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by patch in bug 251775