Copy/paste of hyperlinks with IE creates font tags

[Tristan]

Hi,

There appears to be a bug affecting IE8 in CKEditor where copying and pasting (via CTRL+C, CTRL+V) changes the HTML and wraps the hyperlink text in font tags. I have been able to reproduce it 100% on ​http://ckeditor.com/demo. I was able to reproduce with IE8 versions in both WinXP 32-bit and Win7 32-bit.

Before copy HTML:

<a href="​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a>

After paste HTML:

<a href="​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong"><font color="#0000ff">Neil Armstrong</font></a>

It seems to affect IE8 only. I've tried to reproduce in IE9, Firefox and Chrome and there was no issue with those browsers.

[Jakub Ś]

Your issue look very similar to #6372 however I was not able to reproduce it.

Please provide exact steps or screen cast of the problem as simple copy paste seems to work without problems.

[Tristan]

Thanks for the prompt response!

I'm at home now and I cannot reproduce it either when using IE8 on Win7 64-bit. I'll have to see what's different about the IE configurations at work.

[Tristan]

I was able to reproduce it on my home configuration by partially copying a link and then pasting.

See ​http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ehmWxvNNc

Let me know if you can reproduce it via this method.

[Jakub Ś]

Problem can be reproduced in all versions of IE from CKEditor 3.1.

There are two way to reproduce this:

• using ctrl+c/ctrl+v (later reffered as keys)
• using IE native copy/paste from menu or toolbar (later reffered as buttons). Of course clipboard access is required here.

Results:

• IE7 - Using keys you can only reproduce it by copy/paste part of link e.g. Amstong from Neil_Amstong. Using buttons and selecting part of link will result in plain text being pasted. Copy/Paste with key or buttons on whole link works as expected.
• IE8 - Using keys and buttons you can only reproduce it by copy/paste part of link e.g. Amstong from Neil_Amstong.
• IE9 - Using keys and buttons you can reproduce it by copy/paste whole or part of link
• IE10 - Using keys and buttons you can only reproduce it by copy/paste part of link e.g. Amstong from Neil_Amstong.
• IE11 - Using keys and buttons you can reproduce it by copy/paste part or whole

IE8 got the same result as IE10

[Jakub Ś]

Starting from CKEditor 4.1 problem can be reproduced when ACF is disabled.