Timeline for How to preserve exact formatting when copy pasting from Facebook into WordPress (or elsewhere)?
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| Dec 11, 2022 at 16:39 | history | edited | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ | TLDR: You can't, and neither do GMail/Evernote. I've edited my question and included direct screenshots and examples, what you claimed in your question was never possible via copy paste even in the services that you mentioned. The only canonical answer regardless of CMS or vendor you use is that it cannot be done because that's not how webpages work. Switching away from WordPress won't help here. Note that I've spent more time and energy on this than I have to spend, so that will be my last edit. | |
| Dec 11, 2022 at 16:29 | history | edited | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2022 at 18:02 | comment | added | Jonathon Neville | Also: If Gmail and Evernote can do it, is there another site that also nearly preserves formatting that I might want to consider instead of WordPress? WP is my preference, but my question is "How to preserve exact formatting when copy pasting from Facebook into WordPress (or elsewhere)?" | |
| Dec 10, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | Jonathon Neville | My questions about Gmail and Evernote were not new questions, nor conversations, but an attempt to find the answer to my original question. If pasting into Gmail and Evernote almost perfectly preserves formatting, why is that not possible with WordPress? Does Gmail have the css and js that Facebook uses pre-loaded? Presumably not. Do they use another approach that doesn't require having the source's css and js? | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 23:01 | history | edited | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 22:53 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ | @JonathonNeville if you have a new question about unrelated software you should ask that somewhere else, WordPress has nothing to do with GMail or Evernote, they are completely different products and they will have independent copy paste handling that has zero overlap with WordPress. I'm only interested in your original question, did I answer it? If not please explain. Remember this isn't a discussion thread, it's a question answer site, I can only answer the question you asked. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 22:49 | comment | added | Jonathon Neville | I just commented under my question about how formatting is preserved when pasting into Gmail and (i think) webclipping into Evernote. Do you know how that's possible? | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ | @JonathonNeville If this answers your question, consider marking it as the accepted answer by clicking the tick button under the voting controls. If not please leave a comment explaining why so that I can update the answer, or so that somebody else can leave a better answer | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 9:49 | comment | added | Jonathon Neville | Thank you. I somehow missed a notification that you posted this. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 22:17 | history | answered | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |