copy paste OL element in browser

Jevan Pipitone <email1@jevan.com.au> Fri, 30 June 2017 13:48 UTC

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Subject: copy paste OL element in browser
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When I copy text that has been displayed from an "ol" ordered list 
element on a web page in firefox, and paste it into notepad, the text is 
copied but the numbers are not. To me this seems like a problem, what do 
you think?

If you don't believe me try it at

https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_lists_ordered

The code is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>An ordered HTML list</h2>
<ol>
   <li>Coffee</li>
   <li>Tea</li>
   <li>Milk</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

What it comes out when copied from the web page displayed (not from the 
source) and pasted into notepad is

     Coffee
     Tea
     Milk

not

1. Coffee
2. Tea
3. Milk

The latter would be better I think

Jevan.