314217 - Ability to copy list items from form listboxes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64468

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1

It would be great if you could select an item in a form listbox (i.e. <select>, where size attribute > 1), and copy it (cmd-c) to put the item's text in the clipboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select an item in a listbox (bugzilla have lots of them)
2. Press cmd-c

Actual Results:  
You get a beep and nothing more happens.

Expected Results:  
The text of the item should be copied to the clipboard.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Does FF does this? For that matter, do any browsers do this? I'm not saying it's not a legit RFE, just wondering if other browsers allow you to copy listbox items.

Comment 2

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Nope, Firefox and Safari do not behave this way. I don't think any browser does. But IMO they should, I've wanted to copy text from listboxes a lot of times. And it feels like a natural thing to do.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Simon, is this possible with our current code? And if not, is this something we share (or will share) with FF/Mac?

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

->core

Comment 5

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 64468?

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64468 ***