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Firefox removes href attribute from anchor tag on copy paste

cliUser
cliUser
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Hi Support,

I have a text along with the image used as a hyperlink as follows.

"Sample Text.<a href="javascript:myfunction()"></a>"

When i copy the above text and paste it inside a HTML Control (for e.g. iframe), the control removes the href attribute of 'anchor' tag. It happens only with firefox and safari. It is working correctly in internet explorer.

"Sample Text.<a ></a>"

Is there any solution for this.? Awaiting for sooner response

Try clicking on the below link

http://screencast.com/t/sXq6BcZvJB

Hi Support, I have a text along with the image used as a hyperlink as follows. "Sample Text.<a href="javascript:myfunction()"><img title="sample image" src="sample.gif" /></a>" When i copy the above text and paste it inside a HTML Control (for e.g. iframe), the control removes the href attribute of 'anchor' tag. It happens only with firefox and safari. It is working correctly in internet explorer. "Sample Text.<a ><img title="sample image" src="sample.gif" /></a>" Is there any solution for this.? Awaiting for sooner response Try clicking on the below link http://screencast.com/t/sXq6BcZvJB

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I tested this in Gmail compose, and what I see is: regular links (href="url") are preserved during copy/paste, but javascript links (href="javascript:") are dropped/cleared.

I don't know whether this is by design. One place to research that would be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/.