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1. Seth Long
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a user trying to copy/paste from a plain text document to a new post in WPMU 2.8.4a. The pasted text does not show up in the visual editor and the HTML editor shows everything wrapped in hidden DIVs:
   <div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

   I reset the plugins folder as directed here, but it had no effect.

   We updated to 2.8.4a last night from 2.7.1. I had previously seen one instance of this when a user copy/pasted from MS Word.

   Does anyone have any ideas about this? Thank you.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a user trying to copy/paste from a plain text document

   What application is s/he using to create these documents?

3. Seth Long
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   TextEdit.app in plain text mode.

4. Seth Long
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   For what it's worth, I opened the .txt file in Google Docs and the copy/paste worked. As did copy/paste from reading the .txt file into a new browser window.

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've come across issues with TextEdit before. Someone on these forums had a problem with it and ended up switching to a different plain text editor. Would it be possible to try another editor to see if this is specific to TextEdit?

6. Seth Long
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Just tested from TextMate and had the same problem. My earlier tests w/Google Docs and the browser all involved copy/paste from within the application - Safari. Just tested with Firefox and had no trouble pasting from TextMate or TextEdit.

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