# 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:** ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-based-quoting-ruby-text-messes-up-formatting/125282/11 "2019-12-05T18:43:39Z")

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> [@vinothkannans](#):
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> Also, it is easy to do in a PR contribution.

I’ll get a Discourse dev environment set up one of these days. 😅

> [@vinothkannans](#):
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> It is a problem with the browser level UX in copy-paste functionality. We can’t do much here.

Understood. Worst case scenario I can do a full post quote to get the proper HTML for those cases. This is still a huge improvement. Thanks!

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