forum Paste as plain text now the default in the forums

[Steven P. Administrators]

There was no reason to allow formatting of other websites to be pasted into posts here.

As a result lines of white on white text  appear for people using the Darkside theme, while it might look okay in the default light theme.

It seems people don't care to use the editor option "Remove formatting" so we've now had to force it.

It won't affect anything else, media will still parse etc

[neufuse Veteran]

I'm betting I know exactly which posts triggered this... 🤣

but yes, plain text should be default!

[aioraito]

That Return key behavior...

I always have to press and hold Shift + Enter or paste from Notepad just to have it the way it's supposed to...

[satukoro]

Great! Now I wish Microsoft would do the same with Office...

[Nick H. Supervisor]

On 06/05/2024 at 16:55, aioraito said:

That Return key behavior...

I always have to press and hold Shift + Enter or paste from Notepad just to have it the way it's supposed to...

Do you mean the default behaviour whereby it drops two lines rather than one line...

Like this? I've come to prefer it. It makes some people's posts much more legible. And for the times where I think the single line drop is more suitable, like putting my role under my name at the end of a PM, shift+enter works fine for me.

Nick H.
Neowin Supervisor

[+Warwagon MVC]

Great!

[cork1958]

👍

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

I wish more places had that as default. Tired of copying text and then it not looking the same as everything else I have typed out 😛

[Brandon H Supervisor]

On 06/05/2024 at 13:23, LittleNeutrino said:

I wish more places had that as default. Tired of copying text and then it not looking the same as everything else I have typed out 😛

I'm the opposite, I actually appreciate formatting being carried over at times. for times that I do want to clear the formatting, I'm fine doing ctrl+shift+v

though my thoughts only apply to formatting outside of text color, I think text color/highlight should be excluded from the formatting that gets carried over for exactly the issue stated in the OP. Unfortunately it's an all or nothing thing though; so I do support it being turned back off by default.