882609 - drag and drop of a link to the content editable div is not pasting the content set through datatransfer.setData()

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

Description

[rakesh makluri]

Attachment: dragdrop.htm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In ondrag start event am setting the data through event.dataTransfer.setData(), but on dropping the link to the content editable div it is not pasting the content set instead it is pasting the link text.

To reproduce it open the attached HTM and dragdrop the link to the green area and the input element


Actual results:

link text is pasted in the div, where as in input element proper content pasted which is set through setData()


Expected results:

It should paste the content set through setData()

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

FWIW, for the green DIV

* I can repro back to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 ID:20110413222027 CSet: fca718600ca0
* Chrome 31 behaves like Gecko
* MSIE behaves as Comment 0's expectation.

Comment 2

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.