56603 - Spaces/tabs are copied to clipboard incorrectly from TEXTAREA/form input.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Scott Gifford (old account)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010
BuildID:    2000101021

If I enter multiple spaces into a TEXTAREA or an text input, they are compressed
into a single space in the X selection.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit a Web page with a TEXTAREA or a text input
2. Enter five spaces, then the letter a, then five spaces, then the letter a,
then five spaces.
3. Hilight the entire line, including all spaces.
4. Optionally, select Edit|Copy
5. Go into another application (like a text editor or xterm)
6. Paste the selection.

Actual Results:  Multiple spaces are pasted as a single space.

Expected Results:  Spaces preserved properly.


I also see this in M17.  Not yet tried in M18.

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

assigning to joe and cc akkana and kin

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

This sounds a lot like 47309, which was fixed with noxif.  If this bug is only
being reported on M17/M18, then it's almost certainly the same bug and is fixed
now.

Comment 3

[Scott Gifford (old account)]

Yup, fixed in a CVS build from 2000-10-16.  Thanks!

Comment 4

[mjudge]

looks good. i verified it. copied text to notepad from text area.