509008 - Added spaces when copy-and-paste results from using indentation in your HTML source.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kyungjoon Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

If you copy and paste text from Unicode pages that mix tabs and spaces for indentation, whitespace can be inserted *inside* the words in the pasted text, different from the rendered HTML.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make an HTML page with a list, with each tag on a separate line.
a. Indent all lines in the body with "<space><tab><space><tab><space>".
b. Make the line start with Korean words, and make the lines long.
2. Load the HTML page in Firefox.
3. Copy the page with Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C.
4. Paste the text into a text editor.
5. ---> Whitespace can appear in the output, even in the middle of words.
Actual Results:  
Whitespace was inserted in pasted output:
* KORE AN words blah blah blah
*  KOREAN words blah blah blah

Expected Results:  
Same visuals as the rendered HTML:
* KOREAN words blah blah blah
* KOREAN words blah blah blah

Comment 1

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Attachment: Copy-and-paste results

On the first line, there are two spaces after the bullet.
On the second line, the first word has been split in two by a space character.

Comment 3

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Attachment: New testcase

Comment 4

[Kyungjoon Lee]

(In reply to comment #0)
> a. Indent all lines in the body with "<space><tab><space><tab><space>".

Also happens when all lines in the body are indented by "<space>". I edited the summary to reflect this.

Comment 5

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

I can confirm this is a bug for Firefox 3.5. But it appears to be fixed on the 3.6. Feel free to try out 3.6:

https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/08/07/firefox-3-6-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/

Or the trunk:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

If the bug is still present, feel free to reopen.

Comment 6

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

Spoke too soon it seems. The bug still appears to exist but in a different manifestation. From the test case you get:

"    *  가가가가"
and
"    * 가가가가"

Noticed double spaces after the * for the first one. This was using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2a2pre) Gecko/20090814 Namoroka/3.6a2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20090814101438

With the HTML5 parser enabled.

Comment 7

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Partial workaround in Firefox 3.5: install Nightly Tester Tools for Firefox 3.0 and then install the "Copy Plain Text" extension for Firefox 3.0; then if you copy as plain text using the extension, then you won't get added whitespace.

This workaround does not work when copy-and-pasting rich text.

Comment 8

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

I can reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 ID:20091102141836

Comment 9

[Kyungjoon Lee]

With Firefox 3.6.11, I can no longer reproduce this with the attached testcase, nor with the kind of input that triggered this earlier.

Could this be a dupe of bug 564737? Thanks.

Comment 10

[Kyungjoon Lee]

Can still be reproduced with other input, in 3.6.11 and 3.6.13.