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Bug 59192 - VisualEditor: Copying part of a table into an existing cell should over-write cell values, not insert it as a sub-table
VisualEditor: Copying part of a table into an existing cell should over-write...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
ContentEditable (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2014-01-01 22:01 UTC by WhatamIdoing
Modified: 2014-02-28 23:04 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description WhatamIdoing 2014-01-01 22:01:53 UTC
Steps to reproduce:

1) Begin with an existing wikitext table (e.g., 4 rows, 4 columns).  Open the page in VisualEditor.

2) Copy part of a different table or spreadsheet (e.g., 2 rows, 4 columns).

3) Place cursor inside a cell of the table in VisualEditor.

4) Paste the copied table.


Results:

VisualEditor places the entire new/rich-copied table, including wikitext formatting, inside the first cell.  The wikitext parser does not deal very gracefully with table-within-table formatting.


Desired outcome:

VisualEditor should overwrite the contents of the cells with the new material.
Comment 1 James Forrester 2014-01-18 06:03:41 UTC
This'll be… hard, to put it mildly. We should think about whether it's what we want to achieve in terms of UX before embarking on it.

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