Bug 553579 - "white-space: pre-wrap" does not preserve new lines (copy & paste)
Summary: "white-space: pre-wrap" does not preserve new lines (copy & paste)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-08 10:27 UTC by Petr Šplíchal
Modified: 2016-06-01 01:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-07-07 16:04:16 UTC
Type: ---
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Simple test case page (166 bytes, text/html)
2010-01-08 10:32 UTC, Petr Šplíchal
no flags Details


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 116083 0 None None None Never

Description Petr Šplíchal 2010-01-08 10:27:57 UTC
Description of problem:

When a text is formatted using css style "white-space: pre-wrap"
and this text is then copied to clipboard using ctrl-c all new
lines are substituted with spaces and pasting the content results
in one long line. The same applies to "white-space: pre". This
behaviour makes copy & paste almost unusable when the white space
needs to be preserved (which is the actual purpose of pre style).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12.i686

Example html code:
<html>
    <body>
        <div style="white-space: pre">
one 
two 
three
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select text
2. copy the selection
3. paste to another location
  
Actual results:
one two three

Expected results:
one
two
three

Additional info:
The <pre> tag works fine.

Comment 1 Petr Šplíchal 2010-01-08 10:32:57 UTC
Created attachment 382434 [details]
Simple test case page

Comment 2 Petr Šplíchal 2010-01-20 16:38:38 UTC
Any update on this? Copy & paste with this firefox behavior is a
real disaster...

Comment 3 Petr Šplíchal 2010-05-20 07:26:51 UTC
Ping. Can we get this fixed?

Comment 4 Chris Campbell 2010-05-24 14:43:19 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 01:33:50 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 00:42:40 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 7 Petr Šplíchal 2011-07-07 06:14:16 UTC
The problem still present in the latest firefox-5.0-2.fc15.x86_64.

Comment 8 Christopher Aillon 2011-07-07 14:30:07 UTC
Sorry this has gone so long without a response.  Anyway, this bug really needs to be addressed upstream, not in Fedora.  Have you filed a bug with mozilla yet?

Comment 9 Petr Šplíchal 2011-07-07 14:55:42 UTC
Looked through the upstream bugzilla and found this one:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116083

which will soon celebrate 10th anniversary ;-)

Comment 10 Christopher Aillon 2011-07-07 16:04:16 UTC
:-) lets hope it doesnt take another ten years then to fix. closing as upstream.


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