Firefox, WordPress, Win 7 or me at fault

[JohnthePilot]

I tried to make a new FF profile and failed.

Someguy201 suggested I try Google Chrome and I got the same result with that that I got from IE. That is I could copy and paste text but not the images.

 

[Wrench97]

If you right click the image can you select copy image and then paste it?

 

[jcgriff2]

Firefox 12 out now - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

See if the upgrade helps.

 

[JohnthePilot]

If you right click the image can you select copy image and then paste it?

That's fine with one or two images as that only doubles the work but with twenty plus it increases the work involved by x20+. Not a practical solution I'm afraid.

Firefox 12 out now - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

See if the upgrade helps.

I'll try it out and report back.

 

[JohnthePilot]

No change with FF 12.0 I'm afraid.

 

[jcgriff2]

So.. to recap, IE works OK, but not Firefox or Chrome?

 

[Laxer]

Way I see it...

IE and Chrome will Copy/Paste but not the images...

FF he is not even given the option

 

[Corrine]

The more I think about this, the less I understand it.

Using Firefox, I went to one of my blog articles (Blogger), selected HTML view > right-click in the text area > clicked Select All > right-clicked in the selected text and selected Copy.

I then when to Word Press, changed to HTML & pasted the copied text & images. Switched to "Visual" and images were there. Saved as a draft.

Created a new Word Press post, changed to HTML & pasted the copied text & images. Switched to "Visual" and images were there.

 

[Laxer]

Corrine, I think he is just copying posts not the actual HTML....

If you want an example... Click on the a/A button in the top of the text editor(HERE)

and then go copy a website or post and paste it in...

It should do all the formatting for you... This is what JtP wants...

 

[Corrine]

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I've found that it depends on the source when attempting to copy/paste text and images. Although the a/A button is here in vBulletin, I don't see it in WordPress.

I see using the a/A missed the rose.ico preceding the title as shown in the original but it picked up the other two images.

Edit Note: After posting, it did lose some of the original formatting and, for what its worth, the twitter icon.

 

[Laxer]

That's because vB does not allow HTML so some of the code is removed....

It was just an example... not perfect :)

 

[JohnthePilot]

Thanks for all the replies.
There seems to be a little confusion about my problem so I shall try and explain again.
When I want to publish an article I don't go into edit mode, I simply copy the article as it appears in TSF. I then go to WordPress and paste into the Visual tab and the article is copied complete with formatting and images. Switching to the HTML tab allowed me to see all the HTML code. At least, that's what I used to be able to do and which Someguy201 can still do. Now, I don't get the option to paste when I right click although I do if I move the cursor to the Title box. I can, however, paste into the HTML tab, but when I do, the images are missing and so is the HTML code. In IE and Chrome, I can now paste into the Visual tab, but still no images.

 

[jcgriff2]

What version wordpress?

WordPress 3.3.2 (and WordPress 3.4 Beta 3)

I've never used w/p before, but I'd be glad to test if I can.

Any Article at TSF...?

 

[JohnthePilot]

It's 3.3.2. Any article would do to test it. The one I'm using is this one by Donald.

 

[Wrench97]

Can you paste the text and image(s) into Word in a single action?
This will tell us if the issue lies in FF or WP.

 

[JohnthePilot]

Yes, it pastes into Word fine.

 

[Wrench97]

So it must be the paste side in WordPress that's the issue, are there any settings or control panel?(can you tell I don't WordPress:r1:)

 

[JohnthePilot]

Not that I can see.

Now something strange is happening; sometimes I can get the paste option and others I can't. There seems to be no particular sequence that leads to this.

This is what I mainly see:



and this is what I should see:

By johnthepilot at 2012-05-01

 

[usasma]

Pardon me for butting in - but this seems to be a problem with the system determining what context area is focused on when you right click.
You're getting a different context menu (the one for navigating a page/webpage) when you should get the same (the one for copy/paste) - so either Windows is messed up, or the context "detector" is messed up in WordPress (IMO). You can see it on this page - right click on this post and you'll see the "navigation" context menu, then right click on the Quick Reply text area and you'll see the "copy/paste" context menu.

Have you tried left clicking on the text entry area (to focus on that area) BEFORE right clicking for the context menu?
That's what works for me when I have similar problems (but, I don't use WordPress)
Maybe try clicking around the page to see if you can find out where the Paste option will show - and where it won't?

Good luck!

 

[JohnthePilot]

Many thank for the suggestion usasma. By clicking around the edit box I found that the only place that gave the proper copy/paste option was for about the first three-quarters of the way across the line following the cursor, but I can now paste, including images. I can't believe that I've never clicked anywhere else but in that position before so I don't understand why I haven't had the problem before.