Closed Bug 402187 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

When you save a file as 'text' Firefox appears to add a pipe | character to the start and end

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131166

People

(Reporter: write, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: CLOSEME) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

The page mentioned above has a simple HTML file containing the following code:

<html><head></head><body><code>test<br>test</code></body></html>

If you 'view source' you can confirm this.

If you save the page to disk as a text file (File -> Save Page As -> Text Files) then it saves the following:

|test
test|

The pipe characters should not be there as they are not in the original file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above
Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
See above
Also happens with Minefield.

Only happens when you use the [code] tag.

See here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3149681#3149681
Version: unspecified → Trunk
As I noted in the above thread this is by design.  

Certain tags preserve some of the formatting as an important part of the content in the form of extra delimiters.  

For example: <b> (delimited with *), <em> (delimited with *), <u> (with _), and in this case <code> (delimited with pipe |).
Whiteboard: CLOSEME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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