275076 - Select-All does not select contents of input text boxes

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sas]

1) Go to any webpage which has HTML form. 
2) Fill in the contents of the form (example fill in user name and password on
mail.yahoo.com). 
3) Select whole of the page by menu option Edit->Select All. (or Ctrl-A)
4) Copy the contents by Edit->Copy (or Ctrl-C)
5) Go to a editor such as Windows Word
6) Paste the contenets by Edit->Paste (or Ctrl-V)
7) The contents of the form elemtns such as text box does not get copied to the
editor.
8) This workes fine when tested with Internet Explorer

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I was with you up until step 8: Internet Explorer, just like every other browser
I have around to test, doesn't actually copy the form field contents for me. It
does highlight over the textboxes, making it look like it will, unlike every
other browser, but what I paste into another program only contains

Yahoo! ID:   
Password:   

not any textbox contents.

Comment 2

[Sas]

Looks like it is a Microsoft thingie.

When I copy from Internet Explorer and paste it in either Windows Word or
Outlook compose mail windows *it copies the contents of the text box* too. But
if I paste it in either gvim or PSPad (Editors) it does not copy the contents of
textbox.

Something to do with how the receiving application decodes the paste contents?
As well as something to do with how the source application allows the elemetns
to be copied?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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