303736 - Copying *part* of a table into MS Word does not preserve table formatting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137450

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Linda Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Cutting a portion of bank statement information from bank web page:  pasting to
Word, now retains formatting if copied directly from web page; however, if
select "Printable Version," paste loses all formatting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open bank web page; select "printable version"
2. Highlight a portion of the line items (i.e., today and yesterday only)
3. Copy highlighted text, then paste into Word.

Actual Results:  
Showed text only -- lost all columnar formatting.  I decline to paste in actual
results due to confidentiality.

Expected Results:  
Should have retained columnar formatting.

I don't use FireFox as my default browser because of this bug.  I access a
number of banking statements every day, and cut and paste the most recent
transactions into Word (to save printing unnecessary/duplicate text). It is too
frustrating to deal with unformatted results because it takes too much time to
decipher the transaction ...

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can you attach an example of an HTML page where this happens?

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 237546 or bug 294054?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: word document the reporter sent me

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

If you copy the middle two rows, pasting into Word does not preserve the table
formatting.  If you select the entire page with Ctrl+A, the formatting is
preserved.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Tested with MS Word 2002 on WinXP, and today's MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH build of Firefox.

Comment 6

[John]

There is a workaround available, noted in bug 137450.   IF you highlight the
table by a CTRL-click on the table border and then copy/paste, formatting is
preserved.  This does not, however, solve the general clipboard problem where
Firefox fails to always preserve formatting from web pages.

Comment 7

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter using your attached testcase, here seems work fine on

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20090729225027

Can you confirm?

Comment 9

[PhistucK]

This reproduces in FireFox 4b12.
Go to about:support, select the Hardware Acceleration table at the bottom, press Ctrl+C, open Notepad, press Ctrl+V - One line of text with no spaces between the cells/new lines between the rows.
Related/duplicated issues -
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638439
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572543
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137450
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237546
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515464

Comment 10

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Problem is fixed in a patch provided in Bug 137450.