264998 - Copy function copies text not visible on screen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 39098

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

If you hightlight and copy the example below, it will copy the hidden text 
that is not visible on screen. It should only copy what is actually visible on 
screen.

Example HTML:

This is <span style="display: none;">some hidden text and </span> some 
visibile text

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight example given
2. Select 'Copy'
3.

Actual Results:  
The example copies "This is some hidden text and some visibile text" to the 
clipboard

Expected Results:  
It should only copy visible text, so in the example "This is some visibile 
text"

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39098 ***