274733 - copy or cut to clipboard from blog entry form doesn't copy return and new line characters

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Cone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041208 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041208 Firefox/1.0+

I am using Movable Type 2.661 to run a blog.  If I copy formatted text from
another webpage into a New Entry form (e.g. into the Entry Body part of the
form), it pastes as expected, but if I then copy or cut a portion of the text
(e.g. a few paragraphs) and then paste the text into a different part of the New
Entry form (e.g. Extended Entry) or even into a text editor then the line feeds
and returns are lost -- essentially I can't use Firefox to make entries in my
blog because I lose paragraph formatting. 
I am using Movable Type 2.661 to run a blog. If I copy formatted text from
another webpage into a New Entry form (e.g. into the Entry Body part of the
form), it pastes as expected, but if I then copy or cut a portion of the text
(e.g. a few paragraphs) and then paste the text into a different part of the New
Entry form (e.g. Extended Entry) or even into a text editor then the line feeds
and returns are lost -- essentially I can't use Firefox to make entries in my
blog because I lose paragraph formatting. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a web page with paragraphs of text
2. select multiple paragraphs
3. open another webpage with boxes to paste text into (such as the Firefox bug
entry form)

Actual Results:  
the formatting of the paragraphs is lost and all the text runs together

Expected Results:  
keep the formatting between paragraphs (line feeds and such)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.