99841 - Highlight of Text in an <LI> (both UL and OL) results in string prepended with space and asterik

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78676

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[James Miller]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091311

In prior builds highlighting text in a line of an ordered or unordered list
would result in the selected text only be sent to clipboard.

Under the 0.9.4 build a series of spaces according to depth, an asterik, and
space, followed by the selected text appear in the clipboard.

This behavior is consistent regardless of where the selected text lies with in
the <LI> line.

I have confirmed this behavior with both English and Japanese text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select text in a <OL> or <UL> <LI> element
2.paste to another window
3.observe text pasted as <LI> element (in a MOZ composer, etc.), or asterik
prepended text string

Actual Results:  text is a prepended with an asterik or as a <LI> element

Expected Results:  should just be the selected text

This breaks alot of stuff... like the xyaku dictionary lookup program..

Is it possible to set the behavior of how text is copied to clipboard?

Comment 1

[timeless]

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Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

Dupe of bug 78676?

Comment 3

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78676 ***

Comment 4

[Terri Preston]

Verified Duplicate