64059 - Extra newline stored in clipboard when copying text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55661

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Scott Gifford (old account)]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001226
BuildID:    2000122610

If I enter text on a form, then select any portion of it which does not include
the end of a line, a newline is still placed onto the clipboard after the
selected text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page with a fill-out form
2. Enter some text in a textarea or a line of text
3. Hilight a portion of it which does not include a newline
4. Paste (with middle-click) into another application or the form itself.

Actual Results:  The pasted text includes a newline at the end.

Expected Results:  Only the hilighted text being placed on the clipboard.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This will happen for any text formatted with the equivalent of <pre>, not just 
form elements

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55661 ***

Comment 2

[Diego]

Verified dupe of bug 55661: "cut & paste from text files always adds <newline>
at the end of pasted text"