how to copy-paste text from firefox, with formatting

[amirtal]

hi,

i have searched the web a lot and could not find any reply to the following question:
how do i copy text from firefox so that when i paste it in another html capable allication, the formatting will be saved?
this is possible in all other commercially available browsers (tested and confirmed on recent versions of chrome, safari, internet explorer and edge).

searching for this topic i do find many results on "how to copy/paste plain text in firefox".
this is not what i need or am looking for.

AFAIK this is the default behavior.. not sure why so many people are searching for this trivial option that is working as-is out of the box.
but to re-iterate, i want to opposite result, to keep text formatting.

this is open for a very long time, i found the same request originally posted at 'February 18th, 2005, 3:51 am' ,almost exactly 13 years (!)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 8&t=220985

any change of getting this feature in firefox as well?
it is very annoying having to open another browser every time i want to copy text from any browser window...

thanks,
Amir.

[therube]

Suppose it will depend on how your other html capable (or incapable) application handles the data it is presented with.

I copied this post & pasted it into (SeaMonkey's) Composer:



Not great, not bad.

[RobertJ]

this is open for a very long time, i found the same request originally posted at 'February 18th, 2005, 3:51 am' ,almost exactly 13 years (!)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 8&t=220985

any change of getting this feature in firefox as well?
it is very annoying having to open another browser every time i want to copy text from any browser window...

thanks,
Amir.

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Bottom line is that we can change nothing in the browser. And as therube noted,

Suppose it will depend on how your other html capable (or incapable) application handles the data it is presented with.

And the ability of the clipboard to keep the HTML/CSS formatting information.

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