470785 - Copy+Paste doesn't copy+paste what I see -- missing CSS maybe?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189320

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[L A Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

I was copying a page from a BBC website and noticed that though I copied the content, the formatting was loosely messed up.  At the bottom, I saw a message which wasn't (isn't) displayed on the source page at all.

"This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so."


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto URL and Select All, and copy into new HTML formatted compose window
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Actual Results:  
Text is copied with some sections, but much formatting is lost and text at the bottom of the page is displayed in the Compose window (after pasting) that is not displayed in the Web-Browser that indicates the possible problem.

Extra text:
This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.


Expected Results:  
Would expect HTML as I see it on the page in FireFox to be copied and pasted in the same format -- and without extra text at bottom that isn't displayed on the source page.


This doesn't seem to be a 'new' problem -- but it is something that I've had hints about it not working for sometime.  It wasn't until I saw the error message in my Copy, (not in the original page), that I had a concrete example of the problem.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Not a duplicate of bug 39098. However, it might very well be a duplicate of a different bug.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Oh, the broken *HTML* that Firefox puts on the clipboard, not the broken *text* Firefox also puts on the clipboard!

That one's more interesting (though with less hope that it will ever be fixed), since in it, glazou says that you should use an inline style attribute for things that should stay with the HTML, advice I don't think I've ever seen before anywhere, even during all the shouting about XHTML 1.1 calling the Style Attribute Module deprecated.