64468 - Ability to copy text from listboxes

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

If a listbox has focus and has at least one item selected, the "copy" option on 
the edit menu and on the context menu should be enabled and should copy the 
selected items.

(Previously suggested by mpt in bug 16081.)

If multiple items are selected, they should be separated by platform newlines, 
but there shouldn't be a newline after the last item.  If individual <option>s 
contain other html tags, the html should be converted to text like normal 
copying from a webpage before being copied.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

*** Bug 63905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

I think this is a dup

Comment 3

[Vladimir Ermakov]

QA Contact Update

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 71673, copying information out of any selected form element.  
(This bug is about the behavior of Copy on an unselected listbox.)

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** Bug 314217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Wayne Woods]

[If anyone is still reading this bug]. Would this be needed before bug 177740 is possible (copying a list of mail messages from a mailbox in Thunderbird/Moz mail)?