294054 - Firefox doesn't pass on formatting information inherited from style sheets

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Helmer Aslaksen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I like to copy text from the Cambridge online dictionary
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org> into a word document. This works fine with IE,
but not with Mozilla. I did some testing on my own, and e-mailed the people who
run the site. It seems to us that this is a clipboard problem in Firefox. It
appears that Firefox preserves literal formatting tags in the copied HTML, but
doesn't pass on formatting information inherited from style sheets.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=10091&ph=on
2. Copy some of the formatted text.
3. Paste into MS Word.


Actual Results:  
The formatting is not preserved.

Expected Results:  
Preserved the formatting.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Helmer Aslaksen]

I've tried it with 1.0.7, but it still doesn't work.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I've tried it with 1.0.7, but it still doesn't work.

And Firefox 1.5 beta 1 (which is what the reminder asked) ?

Comment 4

[Helmer Aslaksen]

I tried it again, now with 2.0.0.3. Still the same problem.

Thanks!

Helmer