507679 - Find and Copy finds/copies hidden text (style="display:none") [should not copy invisible text]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 39098

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090731 Minefield/3.6a1pre

Unexpected behaviour, discovered on Firefox Keyboard shortcuts page (see URL).
Text with style="display:none" is correctly hidden, but both inline "Find" (Ctrl+F) and "Copy" command act as if the text was still visible. Find acts unpredictable.

Steps to reproduce (copy)

1.) HTML page with some text having style="display:none" (see URL)

<span class="noMac kbd">Ctrl</span>
<span style="display: none;" class="mac kbd">Cmd</span>+
<span style="text-align: left; float: none; clear: none;" class="kbd">B</span>

2.) Select visible and non-visible text (e.g. "Ctrl+B" text of the above URL)
3.) Copy selection (context menu, copy)
4.) Paste selection

Actual results (copy)
- invisible text is pasted together with visible text
(e.g. "CtrlCmd+B" is the result of pasting)

Expected results
- invisible text should not be copied. copy should be wysiwyg


Steps (find)

1.) press Ctrl+F, enter search term "Ctrl+B", press Enter
alternatively
2.) enter search term "CtrlCmd"
3.) or "CtrlCmd+B"

Actual result (find)

1.) "Ctrl+B" not found (but that's what's rendered on the page!)
2.) "CtrlCmd" not found (now watch the result of 3:)
3.) "CtrlCmd+B" IS found (in spite of 2.!) (though it doesn't show on the page)

Expected result (find)
Only "Ctrl+B" as rendered on the page should be found as displayed on the page! I can't search for hidden characters! Also, find should act consistently. How come CtrlCmd is not found, but CtrlCmd+B is? Unpredictable.

Comment 2

[Emil Ivanov]

The second problem described in this bug report is bug 305381

Please next time if possible file each bug in different report.