441648 - white-space: pre-wrap selection to copy buffer ignores newlines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 116083

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[James Benson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 

ff3 now renders "white-space: pre-wrap;" styling correctly (according to css 2.1)
but any lines of text selected, copied to the cut buffer (ctrl-c) and pasted
into a text editor will not include the newlines ;(.

line 1
line 2

will become

line 1line2

when copied to the cut buffer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Placed multiple lines into a div with style "white-space: pre-wrap;"
2. Copy rendered lines to the cut buffer with ctrl-c
3. Paste result into any text editor and notice newlines are ignored
Actual Results:  
line 1line2

Expected Results:  
line 1
line 2

the workaround is to mark "newlines" in the styled div with a <br /> tag...

<div style="white-space: pre-wrap;">line 1<br />line 2</div>

renders AND copies correctly

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This sounds like bug 116083 to me.