782082 - CSS-generated text (using content: "...") cant be selected and copied

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12460

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Ache]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

CSS:
span:after { content: "but this part can't be selected and copied."; }
HTML:
<span>This part can be selected and copied </span>


Actual results:

Can't select & copy CSS-generated content.


Expected results:

It should appears as normal text available for select and copy. BTW, both IE9 and Opera12 don't have this bug and allows select+copy for the given example.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Selecting all the text worked in the previous versions with the shortcut Ctrl+A but not the mouse cursor. Anyway copying failed.

For the record, regression range for copying with Ctrl+A:

m-c
good=2011-12-20
bad=2011-12-21
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=2afd7ae68e8b&tochange=cd921d073b22

Comment 2

[Loic]

Attachment: Testcase