406460 - When copying from inside of a <pre></pre> tag, the content's newline characters are stripped.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hayson Tsang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

I have had problems with several different <pre></pre> tag contents, the new-line characters are stripped when I paste it into notepad. I don't think this should happen because it is a pre-tag.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find a website that uses a pre-tag
2.Copy the content of it.
3.Paste in Notepad
Actual Results:  
The text in the Notepad does not include new-line characters that the pre-tag contents included.

Expected Results:  
The new-line characters should be included.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Is this a regression?  The last paragraph of bug 116083 comment 0 says whitespace preservation works for <pre> (but not CSS "white-space: pre").

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Hayson, non CSS works for me
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1pre) Gecko/20090928 Namoroka/3.6b1pre