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Bug 455890
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
Select All also selects hidden elements on the page
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
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(Reporter: sami, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080903020504 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080903020504 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Select All + Copy copies all hidden elements on the page to the clipboard, causing potential confusion and anger in unsuspecting users when they paste the text somewhere.
For example, if a page contains the following code, Select All would also select unwanted profanities, while a manual selection of the entire text would not:
<font color="#990000">Bad example</font>: Mozilla crashed. <span style="display: none;">You suck!</span>
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select All
2. Copy to clipboard
3. Paste somewhere
Actual Results:
Any hidden text on the page gets copied along with visible content.
Expected Results:
Most users probably expect Firefox to copy only what's actually visible on the page.
This is reproducible at least on Firefox 3.0 and newer.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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