Bug 12320 – Markup from another webkit page is always pasted to editable div

• Status: NEW
• Component: HTML Editing

[Dan Wood]

To reproduce:

0. Launch Blot_editableDiv_showSource, my modified version of "Blot" available from <http://dan.karelia.com/webkit/Blot_editableDiv_showSource.zip> with DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH pointing to TOT.  (I'm using r18941)

1. Copy some text from this bug report, such as this text right here, (asuming you're running Safari)
2. Click on the top panel in the modified Blot
3. Paste.

Results: Note that the markup and styles from the source's HTML is preserved in the resulting HTML - in this case, note that the text is within a <pre id="comment_text_0"> tag.

This might be desired in some cases, but if the user is just getting rich text, they don't necessarily want to carry all of the HTML baggage from the source markup.  It would be better to (optionally) have the text pasted in a rich text only, and then let WebKit re-build its HTML based on the rich text.

This is especially problematic when the source text contains structural markup tags, such as <h1> <h2> that don't belong in that place in an editable div of text.

[Justin Garcia]

So you want to see pasted content that's visually identical to what was copied, but made up internally of something consistent (like all attribute-less divs or ps)?