Anybody else noticed an influx of code formatted as individual lines?

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@UKHeliBob spotted a new type of corruption of pasted content when using the "rich text editor":

The markup of the content looks like this:

```
Possible Tag Data: Header: 38 08, Data: 40 1A End: 3C FF

```

```
Extracted ID: 16410

```

```

```

```
Raw FDX-B: 38 08 38 58 FC 9E 

```

```

```

At first it seems the same as the bug I described in post #2. However, it is significantly different. I am able to reproduce it through the following procedure:

  1. Copy some content from the Arduino IDE 2.x Serial Monitor.
  2. Put the post composer in the "rich text editor" mode.2.
  3. Paste the copied content into the composer.

When you copy text to the clipboard, it may be stored in a formatted form (text/html) in addition to plaintext (text/plain). When formatted text is available in the clipboard, the rich text editor formats the post accordingly.

If I copy the following text from Serial Monitor:

foo
bar

and then inspect the raw data inside the clipboard (this is a useful tool for that purpose), I see the following text/html data:

<html>
  <body>
    <!--StartFragment-->
    <div
      style="
        color: rgb(78, 91, 97);
        font-family: monospace;
        font-size: 13px;
        font-style: normal;
        font-variant-ligatures: normal;
        font-variant-caps: normal;
        font-weight: 400;
        letter-spacing: normal;
        orphans: 2;
        text-align: start;
        text-indent: 0px;
        text-transform: none;
        widows: 2;
        word-spacing: 0px;
        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
        white-space: nowrap;
        background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
        text-decoration-thickness: initial;
        text-decoration-style: initial;
        text-decoration-color: initial;
        position: absolute;
        left: 0px;
        top: 18px;
        height: 18px;
        width: 1852px;
      "
    >
      <pre style="margin: 0px">
foo
</pre
      >
    </div>
    <div
      style="
        color: rgb(78, 91, 97);
        font-family: monospace;
        font-size: 13px;
        font-style: normal;
        font-variant-ligatures: normal;
        font-variant-caps: normal;
        font-weight: 400;
        letter-spacing: normal;
        orphans: 2;
        text-align: start;
        text-indent: 0px;
        text-transform: none;
        widows: 2;
        word-spacing: 0px;
        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
        white-space: nowrap;
        background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
        text-decoration-thickness: initial;
        text-decoration-style: initial;
        text-decoration-color: initial;
        position: absolute;
        left: 0px;
        top: 36px;
        height: 18px;
        width: 1852px;
      "
    >
      <pre style="margin: 0px">
bar
</pre
      >
    </div>
    <!--EndFragment-->
  </body>
</html>

So it actually makes sense for the forum to format the pasted content this way, since that is indeed what is indicated by the HTML. So this is more a bug in Arduino IDE, which is already being tracked here:

As with the other bugs, the content is correctly formatted when pasting into a code block:

  1. Copy some content from the Arduino IDE 2.x Serial Monitor.
  2. Put the post composer in the "rich text editor" mode.
  3. Click the "" icon on the composer toolbar.
  4. Paste the copied content into the composer.