438374 - Table with <p> tags adds unnecessary newlines to clipboard, impossible to parse!

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Lyndon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

I need to be able to parse tables copied from a third party website and pasted into a html <textarea> field.

the issue is that the tables use <p> tags like <table><tr><td><p>A</p></td><td><p><B</p></td></tr></table>, and this adds newlines which affect readability, and make it impossible to parse the table!

i did  study of this in various browsers, you can find this, which includes the test case, and detailed results here (if the link doesn;t work, give me a shout!): http://lrebrown.x10hosting.com/table_clipboard_test/

i posted a similar report previously (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436921), it was suggested after a discussion that i post a new, cleaner, more specific report, which this is!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Lyndon]

forgot to mention, this is still a problem with Firefox 3.0.x

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Comment 3

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

Not blocking. This needs to be confirmed before it can be considered for blocking a maintenance release.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Not something we'd hold the release for, but if someone has the cycles to work on this we'd for sure consider a reviewed patch.

Comment 5

[Lyndon]

Attachment: Copy of report/study (html)

Attaching a zip copy of the html based report/study I made since the linked website has been down for some time.

Comment 6

[Lyndon]

I just quickly checked result data from Firefox 29 against the original result data from version 2/3 with the aid of a hex editor and they are identical.