Can't Paste into Gmail?
zoom
Mozilla Firefox browser, you can't paste into gmail...I tried with IE
and I can paste text from another document into the compose message
box, so must be browser compatability issue.
The Doctor
respond.
The menu you list in the other thread is indeed the Firefox right-click
menu, but it's for when you've not selected a text box. I am using
Firefox and when I click to the right of this box I get that menu...
when I click IN this box I get this:
Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste***
Delete
Select All
This Frame
I suspect Firefox believes you're not in a text area (selected) to
paste into, so why invite trouble. I have no compatibility issues with
Firefox or IE... they both work great for me, infact Firefox is better
with Greasemonkey and tabs.
Doc
Gerard Seibert
Subject: [Gmail-Users] Can't Paste into Gmail?
Wrote these words of wisdom:
On 12/2/2005 5:45:46 PM Gerard Seibert Replied:
Install ClipCache Plus
http://www.clipcache.com and you will be able to cut and paste from or
into virtually any medium.
--
Gerard Seibert
gerard....@gmail.com
Vincent Wright
The list you're sharing does show up when you right click in a Gmail
compose window in Firefox - IF- you select the Plain Text option. It
still doesn't who up in the Rich Formatting option.
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javatyger
a single problem. I use Firefox and Gmail exclusively, and copy
documents from Word, IE when I have it open, other programs, and I
don't have a single issue. Are you using a Mac or something? Who
knows... All I know is that I go ctrl+c and paste it into the compose
box just fine.
marie
marie
The Doctor
> The list you're sharing does show up when you right click in a Gmail
> compose window in Firefox - IF- you select the Plain Text option. It
> still doesn't who up in the Rich Formatting option.
>
> Vincent
GP Vincent, and this probably explains his problem, and validates my
answer.
I hadn't noticed cause I use Plain text 99% of the time cause e-mail
*IS* plain text. I only use Rich text when someone sends me in-line
pictures that I want to forward on, but don't want to save off and
re-attach.
[Speculation, I've not looked at the code] I suspect that when you're
using Plain Text, Gmail draws your screen with a "text box" command in
HTML, so both Firefox and IE recognize it and allow you to paste in.
When you're in Rich Text, Gmail is forced to create a box with
javascript, cause HTML does not provide for a "formatted text box"
input field. Firefox does not recognize it as a pastable area, so it
does not present the menu with Paste on it. IE is notorious for
violating standards, so either it a) allows you to paste regardless if
the selected region is technically writable, or b) digs into the
received javascript and realizes that you're in a created "text box" so
it allows the paste [personally I'm more inclined to the former].
So zoom's answer is (if he's using Rich text), If you want to paste
into Firefox, use Plain Text; if you want to continue to use Rich Text,
use IE.
blue_devil
I think that i found a solution, instead of right clicking you may use
the shortcut as you all know ( ctrl + v ).
I use this method.
javatyger
single issue.
Jay Patel
thanks
Yeah, that is exactly what I do, just ctrl + c, then ctrl + v. Not a
single issue.
JAY PATEL
zoom
then ctrl V into Gmail body which does not work. I feel like an
idiot!
Thanks, this will save me a ton of screaming!