Open Bug 275555 (steve.swanson@mackic) Opened 20 years ago Updated 3 years ago

cut table from web page and paste in new html email makes an empty table cell

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(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

x86
Windows 2000
defect

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(Reporter: ventre.louis, Unassigned)

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I cut a small section of site within a table and pasted it in Thunderbird new 
mail.  All that copies is an empty table cell.  The table cell cannot be  
deleted.  The process of cut in the browser and paste works ok when the paste 
is in outlook express.
Assignee: myk → mscott
Component: Creating/Changing Bugs → Message Compose Window
Product: Bugzilla → Thunderbird
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla
You copied the text from Firefox, I presume?  Which version of FF, and which 
version of TB?

If you could provide a URL to the page, and specify exactly which text you had 
selected, I might be able to reproduce this.  As it is, I can't.

To delete the table or cell, you need to first select the table or cell and then 
choose a subitem from the menu:   Format | Table | Delete
version 1.0 (20041206) Thunderbird
I was using IE 6.

I was using the whois function in Network Solutions and was copying the site 
data and tring to paste it into Thunderbird.  It wouldn't paste.  However, it 
pasted in OE without problem.
It's pasting for me.  "The site data" is not very precise -- exactly where on 
the page did you start the selection of the "small section of site within a 
table", and where did you end it?
I was using the Network Solutions Account Manager and was reviewing my domain 
details.  One must be logged in to get this page.  I copied from below 
the "Domain Details" header which starts with the domain name down 9 lines to 
just before the line "Change domain to point to".

I tried it again just now and it pastes into a Thunderbird Compose document a 
full width pink cell with no contents.
If you paste into another HTML-aware program -- say, Microsoft Word -- do the 
missing contents appear there?
Yes.  I just tried it and it pastes as three separate tables.  I also did a 
special paste - text only, it pastes as plain text not in a table.
If you paste the problematic clipboard into Thunderbird *without* formatting 
(under the Edit menu), does the expected plain text appear in the message 
window?

Do you see this problem for any copy/paste from IE and that site?  Or does it 
happen only for the particular bit of text you're attempting to get?

Try this: get the problem text into the clipboard, then start the Clipboard 
Viewer (clipbrd.exe).  Then save the clip (File | Save As) as an NT Clip file; 
and attach that that file to this bug (using the Create New Attachment link 
above).
The empty box pastes for any copy from this web page.  The paste without 
formatting works in Thunderbird.  While the bug is still present.  This 
represents a work around.  Thanks for your help.
I was able to reproduce the bug.  I did a search to find this bug, as I
independantly found the bug. I was at, in firefox,
 
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=fusionathletics.com&type=A

and wanted to copy the table into thunderbird (TB)(version 1.0 (20041206))
"reply to" message body area.  

I selected the entire table and right clicked, selected copy.  (control c) and
went to TB and selected paste (control-v), and got nothing.  No empty cell, no
cursor movement, nothing.

So I wanted to see if I was losing my mind, I opened word 2003, and hit
control-v there, and my table appeared.  

This made me upset, anyways, I reselected the desired text in word, and hit
copy, went back to TB, and hit paste, control-v and the text appeared.  Awesome,
I now have to keep a memory pig (word) open.  

Pasting straight text works great until it comes from an HTML table.

Thank you very much for that example; this bug is easy to reproduce from that 
URL.  The problem occurs as well in NVu and Mozilla HTML mail and HTML composer 
(1.8a6 and 1.7.5).

It appears to be very similar, perhaps a dupe, to bug 242580.
Attachment coming up.
Assignee: mscott → mozeditor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Message Compose Window → Editor
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Thunderbird → Core
QA Contact: bugzilla
Version: unspecified → Trunk
This is the file representing the clipboard contents after copying the table as
described in comment 9.  You can load the data into the clipboard using the
Clipbook Viewer (in Windows 2000 -- I don't know for sure whether this same
utility is available for WinXP or Win9x).

See bug 242580 comment 1 for my analysis of what this data means.
QA Contact: bugzilla → editor
Assignee: mozeditor → nobody
clipbook viewer is available on XP, but not on vista. :(

If remote desktop is working correctly for me, this is WFM on trunk version 3.0a1pre (2008021703). But not in version 2.

maybe bug 242580 is gone too?
Alias: steve.swanson@mackic
Summary: cut from browser site and paste in new email makes an empty table cell → cut table from web page and paste in new html email makes an empty table cell
Version: Trunk → unspecified

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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