482529 - HTML not getting copied and pasted properly in Gmail compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 480972

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090310 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090310 Minefield/3.2a1pre


HTML format not getting copied and pasted properly in gmail compose window

1. Open http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp in a seperate tab
2. Go to gmail.com and compose a new mail (with rich formatting enabled)
3. Select and copy the example HTML table in  http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
4. Paste it in the gmail compose window.
5. Minefield only pastes partial information

Works fine in Firefox 3.0.7

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp in a seperate tab
2. Go to gmail.com and compose a new mail (with rich formatting enabled)
3. Select and copy the example HTML table in  http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
4. Paste it in the gmail compose window.
5. Minefield only pastes partial information
Actual Results:  
Minefield only pastes partial information, does not copy the HTML table

Works fine in Firefox 3.0.7

Expected Results:  
Should be able to copy and pasted HTML tables in gmail compose window.

Comment 1

[Mike]

Confirmed and annoyed. ( Windows XP, Gecko/20090310 Minefield/3.2a1pre) 

This bug can be reproduced if you copy texts for over one paragraph.

Comment 2

[u88484]

Maybe a dupe of bug 480972

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

comment 1 matches regression range of bug 480972.
i'm not able to repro comment 0 though. the only thing that's not right is that the blinking caret is in the second last line instead the very last after pasting.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Does GMail use contentEditable? If so, this is a dupe ... marking, please re-open if that's the wrong assertion.