383864 - CSS formatting ignored when copying and pasting prestyled elements like lists and tables

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[The 8472]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

The formatting of copied and pasted text seems to be html-element-specific and can't be influenced by CSS, thus major discrepancies (lesser ones are expected) between screen representation and the copied and pasted content arise.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an unordered list or a table
2. use CSS style all elements to be display:inline
3. copy and paste the content somewhere
Actual Results:  
The copied/pasted content contained newlines, tabs etc. which represent the default formatting of the elements, but not the actually used formatting

Expected Results:  
If elements are inlined they shouldn't create newlines. C&Ping content that is represented as list (e.g. because it's semantically a list) but presented as a single line to (for example) IRC causes flooding, wasts screen real estate etc.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

 The 8472 do you still see this?

Stephanie might try this shortly.

Comment 2

[The 8472]

Yes,

tables and lists still insert newlines, tabs and indentation even if styled as display: inline;

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Is this about pasting to a plain text editor (in which case it's arguably the same as bug 492147) or to a rich text - Word/Outlook/HTML editors (bug 406488)?

Comment 4

[The 8472]

Plain text

Comment 5

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.