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This might be well-known, but I just discovered it now. I wanted to copy some text from a Web page to an email message, so I copied the text in Safari and pasted it into a mail message. The pasted text included all sorts of hidden junk, such as comments, javascript and extra line breaks. So, I dragged the text to the desktop to create a text clipping and then dragged that to my email message. Voila! Clean, plain text.
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Wow ! This is just a plain bug ! (already sent to Apple)
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I too noticed that text clippings in Panther no longer retain styled text, and it's most definitely a bug.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings... or...
It seems that Edit - "Past With Current Style" in Panther Mail will also strip out the unwanted formating from copied text.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Hmmm. I can't drag text from Safari. My cursor continues to be that i-beam thing even after selecting some text. Is there some keyboard combination that I need to use?
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Select your text then within that selection click, pause for about 1 second and drag to the desktop.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Thank you. I've been frustrated since I started using Safari that I couldn't ever drag text clippings. That's most definately annoying for those of us that are impatient to move on with what we're doing...those used to selecting and then dragging (right away).
but thanks for letting me know it's possible.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
I would just like to add that the text clipping is a rtf text ressource.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Actually, it appears that if you open the text clipping file and copy the text, it's plain text. If you drag the actual text clipping file itself into a rich-text email, it will be placed as rich-text, though with less formating than coping directly into Mail.
Use TextEdit instead
I always use TextEdit to ged rid of the styles. Copy the text from the source then paste it into TextEdit, which must be in plain text mode (can be set in its prefs to use it as default) of course.
Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
I have 10.3.1. I tried copy/pasting from safari to mail and no problems. I tried drag/dropping in to mail and no problems.
The next is formatted the same way in mail as it was in safari, which is what you'd expect. I don't see any junk, javascript etc. If my email is set to be plain text, then the formatting is lost, but still no funny chars. It just works. |
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