# Highlight-based quoting ruby text messes up formatting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-based-quoting-ruby-text-messes-up-formatting/125282>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-based-quoting-ruby-text-messes-up-formatting/125282 "2019-08-08T21:02:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-based-quoting-ruby-text-messes-up-formatting/125282/10 "2019-12-05T18:17:11Z")

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Sure, I’ll whitelist those tags if needed. Also, it is easy to do in a PR contribution.

> [@seanblue](#):
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> More importantly, when I test this on the word in my OP (and _only_ that word) it misses the surrounding `ruby` tags,

It is a problem with the browser level UX in copy-paste functionality. We can’t do much here.

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