Copy and paste of html containing links does not preserve links [#2854719]

When I copy an existing table on another website that contains links, and paste that table into the copy/paste textarea, I want those links to be preserved. I have explicitly set the text format so links are allowed, yet the act of copying and pasting seems to remove the links I need.

I notice that when copying HTML into an application like Google Sheets, the links are preserved. I wonder if we can preserve links in our paste in the same way.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	tablefield-retain-links-2854719-4.patch	2.58 KB	jenlampton

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Comment #1

21 February 2017 at 22:40

jenlampton created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

jenlampton

she / her

commented 22 February 2017 at 00:19

This is hard :/

Comment #3

jenlampton

she / her

commented 22 February 2017 at 00:20

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Comment #4

jenlampton

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commented 22 February 2017 at 01:29

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Status	File	Size
new	tablefield-retain-links-2854719-4.patch	2.58 KB

Here we go, let's give this a try.

Comment #5

lolandese commented 26 February 2017 at 14:57

I have some difficulty to reproduce a reliable test case. This is what I did on the latest dev:

Applied the patch and cleared the cache.
Created a test table to copy/paste the output.
Copy pasted into Google Sheets and confirm links are preserved.
On the Edit page of a content type that contains a table field wit text format Full HTML I used the field Paste table data here and click Import & Rebuild.

Although the table is imported correctly (BTW an awesome feature) it is missing the necessary HTML thus the links after saving the node.

It looks like you a WYSIWYG active on your paste field? What do I miss?

Comment #6

jenlampton

she / her

commented 1 March 2017 at 22:07

Hm, I don't think you missed anything, those were the steps I followed almost exactly. I was testing on Firefox, and I wonder if it works differently in Chrome or other browsers. Which browser were you testing in?