* TITLE/SUMMARY INPUT TYPE values (and OPTION items from a SELECT) are selectable * STEPS TO REPRODUCE 0) Launch Apprunner 1) View http://slip/projects/marvin/copy-paste/copy-bad-stuff/copy-bad-stuff.html (attached as test case) 2) Type something into the Input Fields text fields 3) Select a few items in the Option list. 4) Select and copy the entire page content 5) View the Clipboard * RESULT - What happened After step #2, note that the actual "Submit" and "Reset" button text labels are selected. After step #3, note that the content of the highlighted OPTION items was copied to the Clipboard, but the content of the Input fields were not copied. - What was expected Assuming from conversation with Akkana that none of the above items should be selected or copied to the Clipboard as text; this is the behavior of IE 4.5 on Mac, at least. However, no specification exists to delineate the expected behavior. * REGRESSION - Occurs On Mac OS Apprunner (1999082412 optimized build) Win32 Apprunner (1999082412 optimized build [NT 4, Service Pack 3]) - Doesn't Occur On Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac OS) Linux Apprunner (1999082412 optimized build --- button text not highlighted; copy doesn't work at all on this page.) * CONFIGURATIONS TESTED - [Mac] Beige Power Mac G3 (266 MHz PowerPC 750), 96 MB RAM (VM on; 1 MB of VM used), 1024x768 (Thousands of Colors), Mac OS 8.6 - [Win32] Vectra VL (233 MHz P2), 96 MB RAM, 800x600 (True Color), NT 4.0 SP3. - [Linux] Vectra VL (266 MHz P2), 96 MB RAM. Red Hat Linux 6.0 (GNOME).

I'm not sure if this is entirely a Mike Judge issue (or, really a single bug), so Akkana & Rod CC'd should they wish to add their $.02.

Also, the actively selected item from a pop-up menu is also displayed as selected content. (checked Mac OS only)

BTW, Akkana or Rod, could you please let me know if you'd like me to split out the "copying OPTION item or a pop-up menu item to clipboard results in the currently selected menu option's text also being copied" issue into a separate issue, too? (or just keep it grouped in this bug, which of course, doesn't make much sense to me, now that I've entered it ;)

Copy just follows the selection, so it probably isn't a separate issue ... if the items aren't selectable then copy won't put them on the clipboard.

hahaha this is great what a cool bug. whomever is in charge of listboxes is trapping mouse clicks but they are passing them on. this is the problem. I am assignin this to rod because someone whispered that he does the list boxes/comboboxes. davidhyatt solves this problem in the tree view maybe you could talk to him. wait i will assign it to owner of component...

this is an html forms control, not an xptoolkit widget. reassigning to kmcclusk

*** Bug 14667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

changed to M14

The visual display is now correct, it is a question of what "content" should be a copy. Currently, the options of the select are being copied into the buffer, this may or may not be desireable. What are the requirements? Anyway it isn't a select bug. If somebody decides that the content of the form controls should NOT be included in the paste contents then that is a copy/paste mechanism bug, not a select bug. So a new bug should be files against the copy/paste mechanism. So, because the visual display is not correct, I am marking this as fixed.

Re-opening and re-assigning to Akkana, who can probably with the "After step #3..." section. This still occurs on 2000012108 build (Mac OS checked, will check Win32/Linux.) (I'm not going to divert 15 minutes of testing time to write up a separate bug report when this one already explains the issue quite clearly.)

Reassigning to Akkana, who probably either gets this bug, or knows who should.

I didn't understand this bug before, but after talking with Eli and Joe, I think I understand what's missing at this point: that on plaintext copies, we should not copy the contents of the select element. I can do that part in the output system, and am accepting the bug on that basis. If there are other things that also need to be done, someone please clarify so I don't miss it.

Checked in a fix. Now we won't output any of the children of SELECT tags in plaintext output. I thought it might be useful if it figured out which tag was selected, and sent that to the output, but that wasn't what people were asking for and it was harder, so I didn't do it this time around. If anyone wants that, file a new bug (don't use this one, it covers too many issues already) on me. If no one does, I'll assume nobody want that feature.

Looks fixed using 2000021008 builds on Mac OS 8.6, NT 4.0 SP5; unsure how to do a plaintext copy on RH Linux 6.0/GNOME. Holding on formal verification to ask Akkana a question.

Verifying as fixed. Will open separate bug on Monday for the missing spaces between table columns (as discussed with Akkana).

<Wrote up bug #31994, for a regression in the pop-up select menu's text once again being picked up by the plaintext clipboard.>