Bug 153261 - Writer inserts tabs in bulleted lists when copying to Firefox (EDITING)
Summary: Writer inserts tabs in bulleted lists when copying to Firefox (EDITING)
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.7.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2023-01-28 19:32 UTC by bugs
Modified: 2025-11-25 15:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description bugs 2023-01-28 19:32:00 UTC
Description:
I'm trying to copy a bulleted list from LO Writer to a HTML Rich Text Editor form and I'm getting tabs (ASCII 9) inserted in odd spots.  For instance, if I have "A few utility belts, thick enough" in a bulleted list, copy, and paste into Firefox, it comes out "A few utility <TAB>belts, thick enough." (where <TAB> is the ASCII character)  How can I stop the insert of those TAB characters?




Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a bulleted list with text
2.  Copy/Paste it (using menus or Control-C/Control-P) to a web page that allows editing with formatting (example: Patreon's text post editor)
3.  Examine the odd formatting

Actual Results:
Formatting is sprinkled with ASCII Tab (9) characters

Expected Results:
No tabs, just spaces.  Formatting is similar to that in Writer.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
LO 7.3.7.2, Firefox 109, Linux Mint XFCE 21.1
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-01-28 21:39:01 UTC
Which editor is that? I tried in a new HTML email in Thunderbird, as well as this rich text editor in Firefox: https://html-online.com/editor/
And on CryptPad as well, and could not reproduce.

Also, please copy and paste the full information from "Help > About LibreOffice" here, and test a version that will see further versions released (7.4 or above).

Thank you!
Comment 2 bugs 2023-01-28 22:15:54 UTC
Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Calc: threaded

I was pasting into Patreon's editor, which (given some digging around) is React and Draft.js combined.

Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for the latest stable versions of LO?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-01-29 03:24:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2023-01-30 13:53:12 UTC
(In reply to bugs from comment #2)
> Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for the latest stable versions of LO?

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Comment 5 Tammy 2023-04-29 18:22:45 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in

Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Calc: threaded

This issue is happening on Patreon's blog editor when in edit mode. When the user saves the text, the spaces are not present until it is modified. However, I also found that the spaces do disappear when the following happens from LibreOffice to an HTML Rich Text Editor form 
1. Create a bullet list. 
2. Select the entire bullet list. 
3. Right-click and select 'Clear Direct Formatting
4. Select 'Paste Special -->Unformatted Text
5. Right-click again and select List -->No List 
6. Right-click to Copy
7. Navigate to the post like Patreon and paste. The tabs do not appear.
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2023-04-30 08:27:51 UTC
(In reply to Tammy from comment #5)
> Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in
> 
> Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: 30(Build:2)
> CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
> Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
> Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
> Calc: threaded

Can you also reproduce with version 7.5 or 7.6?
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2024-10-05 18:02:33 UTC
Not everyone has access to Patreon's blog editor, so we need some freely available solution to test. An example document would also be needed.

Set to NEEDINFO.
Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the information and document.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2025-04-04 03:11:17 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2025-11-25 15:34:06 UTC
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