Re: Iceweasel's copy/paste behavior

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/15/09 12:04, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 01/15/09 09:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > When I copy text from a webpage in Iceweasel, the pasted text includes
> > > material not visible on the page (because styled 'display:none').  Other
> > > browsers (Opera on Linux, Google Chrome on Windows) simply paste the visible
> > > text.  Is there any way to tell Iceweasel to do likewise?
> > Can you give us a sample URL we caqn try this on?
>
> I have a bunch of edited US Supreme Court cases for my students.  Here's an
> example:
>
> http://ul451.gsu.edu/courts.gov/c/editedUS/460/460.US.204.81-1003.html
>
> In that example, you'll notice an ellipsis ([...]) between paragraphs 6 and
> 17.  If you copy from paragraph 6 through the ellipsis to paragraph 17,
> Iceweasel picks up paragraphs 7-16, not visible in the browser, so that the
> entire content, visible and not, gets pasted.  Opera doesn't do that, and
> neither does Chrome (on Windows).

Interesting.  If you click on the ellipsis, the text appears.

Appears to be a bug, but might be SOP.  (It's also in FF 3.1b2, so 
you might want to file a bug at mozilla.org Firefox.)

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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