Sam Johnston Reporter
	Description • 16 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

When a document is served as application/xhtml+xml to satisfy the W3C validator (and presumably the underlying spec) it is no longer possible to copy it as rich text (eg into Gmail) - formatting is lost and it is pasted as plain text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to document served as application/xhtml+xml (eg http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies/OrganisationAssurancePolicy/OrganisationAssuranceSubPolicyAustralia.html)
2. Copy formatted text
3. Paste to rich text field (eg Gmail compose window)

Actual Results:  
Plain text is pasted

Expected Results:  
Formatted text is pasted

Verified on subversion server by comparing results with 'svn propset svn:mime-type "text/html" $1' and 'svn propset svn:mime-type "application/xhtml+xml" $1'

	Danny Kidd
	Comment 1 • 16 years ago

This actually happens to me when copying any formatted text. It pastes as non-formatted plain text.

Very annoying!

	Raph
	Comment 2 • 16 years ago

(In reply to comment #1)
> This actually happens to me when copying any formatted text. It pastes as
> non-formatted plain text.
> 
> Very annoying!

I have exactly the same boring problem. Maybe a OS bug ? (Mac OS 10.4.11).

	lynn schmelzer
	Comment 3 • 16 years ago

I have the same annoying problem with Thunderbird on WinXP.  Copying rich text from an email to a wordperfect doc/staroffice doc results in plain text.  It is so annoying, that I have reverted to Outlook (uggh).

	Sam Johnston Reporter
	Comment 4 • 16 years ago

That may be true lynn but I don't think you're a victim of /this/ bug specifically - you may like to see if you can find the offending issue, or file a new one.

	ivan@versailles.inra.fr
	Comment 5 • 16 years ago

Hi,
Exatly the same problem appears also on a French version for Max OS X and for FF3.0.

	Sam Johnston Reporter
	Comment 6 • 16 years ago

Agreed, it's present in FF3 and is likely language independent. Seems to be related to the storage of the content-type with the clipboard data based on mime-type.

This should work if people are to be encouraged to comply to the standards (eg XHTML served with the correct mime-type).

	ivan@versailles.inra.fr
	Comment 7 • 16 years ago

If it can help, I can make the copy/paste experiment on the same web page with Safari, and it's working well (pasting formatted plein text in MS world as I want)

	Chris Hall
	Comment 8 • 16 years ago

I have the same problem. I have Mac OS 10.5.3, and Firefox 3, and when copy and  pasting into Word 2008 from Firefox, it comes across as plain text, instead of being formatted.
Safari works well though, so it is either live with it until they fix it, or change to Safari :-S

	Al
	Comment 9 • 16 years ago

Same as bug 428096?

	Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]
	Comment 10 • 16 years ago

Thanks Al. Everything looks like a dupe of bug 428096.

	Al
	Comment 11 • 16 years ago

If you haven't voted for the duplicate of this bug (bug #428096), please do so.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=428096#vote_428096

I am hoping to raise the attention and importance of this issue and hopefully get the HTML, styl, rtf, img function of the Firefox clipboard finally fixed.

Thanks for helping.

	RobH
	Comment 12 • 10 years ago

I have seem to have an issue something like this old thread.  
A cut and paste action (of an HTML table) into Gmail initially looks OK but when either sent or saved as draft and re-opened, formatting is gone.
Using Gmail in Chrome or Safari to do the same (using the same Gmail account) works OK and this is a task I've been doing weekly in Firefox for a long time.  Updated last week to Firefox 36.