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Alan Gerow

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Jun 29, 2003, 12:15:51 PM6/29/03
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Is there a way to disable the pesky problem Mozilla has with copying
text from a web page, and it adding <!--StartFragment--> and putting
HTML tags around everything?

It is very annoying when I just want text, and I have to go in and spend
several minutes undoing what Mozilla did. If I wanted HTML tags around
it, I would have selected the text "View Selected Text" and grabbed the
HTML from there. I would rather NOT have Mozilla doing this.

So, is there a setting somewhere or a prefs.js tweak to get it to knock
it out and JUST copy text from a web page?

Thanks, Alan

Boris Zbarsky

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Jun 29, 2003, 12:30:53 PM6/29/03
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Alan Gerow wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the pesky problem Mozilla has with copying
> text from a web page

Mozilla always copies text from a web page _and_ HTML from the web page;
it puts both in the clipboard, one in the "text" flavor and one in the
"html" flavor (actually, sometimes it puts some image flavors there too,
and so forth)

The app that you paste into decides what flavor it wants and gets it
from the clipboard. If it wants HTML, it asks for HTML and gets HTML.
If it wants plaintext, it asks for that and gets it. If it wants image
data, it asks for it and gets it.

Sounds like you need to configure the app you are pasting into to ask
for what you really want.

-Boris

GuruJ

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Jun 30, 2003, 3:56:06 AM6/30/03
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Alan Gerow wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the pesky problem Mozilla has with copying
> text from a web page, and it adding <!--StartFragment--> and putting
> HTML tags around everything?

From memory, this is a "feature" of FrontPage, rather than being a
Mozilla-specific problem. You will notice this doesn't happen in
Mozilla Composer, or other text-only programs such as Notepad.

-- GuruJ.

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