` tags.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/30 "2017-12-06T05:56:11Z")
How is this in scope in any form? Colors, etc, are not Markdown features. If you want that, screenshot and paste an image.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/31 "2017-12-06T06:47:03Z")
Just threw them in for testing. I believe **BOLD** and _italics_ are MarkDown.
There is a plugin that will give font colors with `[color]` codes. Not official, I know, but would be nice.
Also, I’m just pointing out to the fact that lists in Word doesn’t come through, which is definitely in scope. Not a fault of the system but Word (it doesn’t translate lists to the appropriate HTML tags), but still needs handling just because it is Office, you know.
EDIT: And the table embedded in Word is not converted correctly also. But this is already addressed:
> [@Falco](#):
>
> I believe our html\_to\_markdown library predates markdown table support (markdown-it), so it doesn’t handle it yet.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/32 "2017-12-06T07:41:10Z")
Yeah, I can repro – a list in Word doesn’t come through as a list, neither bulleted nor numbered.
```
Paragraph
1. This
2. Is a
3. Numbered list
Paragraph
- This
- Is a
- Bulleted list
Paragraph
```
Would be good to preserve lists from Word pastes, I can agree with that @vinothkannans – the issue is the hidden tab character that Word is inserting here:
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/34 "2017-12-06T07:47:47Z")
Okay I will look at these issues 👍
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/38 "2017-12-06T07:57:33Z")
How did you get the plain text to paste?
When I paste, I get this:
```plaintext
This is a list
1.
Potato
2.
Potato
3.
Potato
```
because it is using the HTML version instead of the plain-text version, and Word’s HTML version converts lists to `` tags.
Pasting the plain-text version in the clipboard will get this:
This is a list
1. Potato
2. Potato
3. Potato
which works fine even with the tab characters.
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### Author:  [@user\_checker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/user_checker)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/39 "2017-12-06T08:16:46Z")
Test 1 (select 3 paragraph and delete 1 + 3 in reply):
```plaintext
This is a list 1. Potato 2. Potato 3. Potato
```
Test 2 (select only text in code):
This is a list 1. Potato 2. Potato 3. Potato
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/40 "2017-12-06T09:42:35Z")
Can’t tell if it was always like this but pasting CSS straight from browser devtools seems to be affected.
> **What it looks like**
>
> .select-box-kit.is-expanded .select-kit-body, .select-kit.is-expanded .select-kit-body {
>
> 1. display: -webkit-box;
> 2. display: -ms-flexbox;
> 3. display: flex;
> 4. -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
> 5. -webkit-box-direction: normal;
> 6. -ms-flex-direction: column;
> 7. flex-direction: column;
> 8. left: 0;
> 9. position: absolute;
> 10. top: 0;
>
> }
> **What it's supposed to look like**
>
> .select-box-kit.is-expanded .select-kit-body, .select-kit.is-expanded .select-kit-body {
> display: -webkit-box;
> display: -ms-flexbox;
> display: flex;
> -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
> -webkit-box-direction: normal;
> -ms-flex-direction: column;
> flex-direction: column;
> left: 0;
> position: absolute;
> top: 0;
> }
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/43 "2017-12-08T07:41:13Z")
Copying code from StackOverflow (which you should never do 🙃 ) is affected.
Steps to reproduce:
1- Go to [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4358620/8157693)
2- Copy the script part.
3- Paste in composer.
**Result:**
```plaintext
function makeUnselectable(node) { if (node.nodeType == 1) { node.setAttribute("unselectable", "on"); } var child = node.firstChild; while (child) { makeUnselectable(child); child = child.nextSibling; }
} makeUnselectable(document.getElementById("foo"));
```
**Expected result** (works if you use paste as plain text or `ctrl` + `shift` + `v` ):
```
function makeUnselectable(node) {
if (node.nodeType == 1) {
node.setAttribute("unselectable", "on");
}
var child = node.firstChild;
while (child) {
makeUnselectable(child);
child = child.nextSibling;
}
}
makeUnselectable(document.getElementById("foo"));
```
Chrome Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) (64-bit) - latest
Win 7
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/44 "2017-12-08T08:01:50Z")
We are going to put HTML and Excel table rich paste behind a feature flag for one more week at least while we refine it. Default off. It will remain enabled on meta though.
Helps us relieve some of the pressure. Then in a week or so we can decide if we want to include this in 1.9 or not.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/45 "2017-12-08T10:05:07Z")
I don’t agree with part of this – **the excel table paste should be 100% safe and should make the 1.9 release**. There is just no way that excel data could be interpreted as anything else.
I do tend to agree the HTML part is way too risky to take on at this time, though.
So let’s make the feature flag about the HTML paste, and push the Excel table paste through.. since that’s what this was originally about before it got all scope-creeped up 😉
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### Author:  [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/47 "2017-12-08T14:56:29Z")
I’d like to add another pasting feature request:
**Automatically remove line breaks**
Sometimes I’ve to copy & paste text from PDF docs. Maybe there is some way to detect unwanted characters `"- "`and repair the words 🙂 Various JS-based online tools didn’t work for me.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/48 "2017-12-08T15:14:13Z")
Speaking of feature creep, it would be nice if you could paste without magical formatting. Could shift-paste just paste like the good old days?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/49 "2017-12-08T15:22:00Z")
You can disable rich text pasting from the site setting `enable_rich_text_paste`. Yes always you can use shift-paste to plain text pasting.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/50 "2017-12-08T15:30:29Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> Could shift-paste just paste like the good old days?
CTRL+SHIFT+V works for me.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-rtf-pasting/55913/51 "2017-12-08T15:52:04Z")
On one hand, well, of course. On the other, this continues to be just awesome. I haven’t used this enough to have tried.
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