Several Problems(bugs?) when editing pages and posts
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Good day. I recently encountered some problems(bugs?) mainly when editing my pages and posts.
For some reason, I can’t copy and paste multiple blocks anymore, whenever I edit or create a new page, and it just shows the contents of my first block that I copied every time I paste it. And even if I copy paste it block-by-block, it’s just plain text. all the formatting, gone.
Another problem is that I can’t seem to drag-select the contents of my page that are beyond my screen display. Everytime I scroll down while dragging my mouse, once I release it, the selection just scrolls back up to the first few blocks I selected that are within the range of my screen, all the remaining blocks beyond that unselected once the selection goes beyond the screen and scrolls down.
Also this is just a recent problem, but for some reason, all the palettes in the color settings of the editor became all greyed out, not showing the original color palettes included in the theme anymore. And for some reason, when I select any of these ‘greyed-out’ palettes, it only shows the same one color, and all palettes became ‘selected’.
Hope you can fix this soon.
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Hi there!
You can copy the content of your posts by clicking on the three vertical dots in the editor, and then “Copy all content”:
I can’t seem to drag-select the contents of my page that are beyond my screen display.
Could you give me an example of when that happens? What are you trying to drag&drop exactly?
I’d like to try and reproduce this on my test site.all the palettes in the color settings of the editor became all greyed out, not showing the original color palettes included in the theme anymore.
Oh, this actually seems like a bug. We already reported it here so, hopefully, it will be fixed soon.
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I uploaded a vid of my problem here.
Also, here is the test scrolling page I used in my vid, in case you need it.
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Hi there,
Thanks for your video and link to the test page you are using. They are both a big help.
It is odd however that I seem to be able to select text across multiple blocks without issue if I try. You can see in this video here: https://d.pr/v/yhtbAI
One thing I noticed from your video is that it appears that when you click and drag (to select multiple blocks) it appears you are dragging your cursor complete past the browser window, yes? I noticed that if I pause the video I can see you are not only selecting the text in the document, but also this bit of text and the bottom of the browser window and beyond.
If I try this (dragging my cursor outside the window) when I move the cursor back up I do see your issue, so I have reported it to our engineers for a closer look.
In the meantime, if you click and drag with a bit more care (so your cursor stays within the blue area) are you able to copy the text same as I am able to do in my video?
Hoping this workaround will help you while our engineers take a look.
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Hi again,
I also wanted to add that if you want to copy all the content without scrolling you can also choose this option on the right:
Hope this helps!
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In the meantime, if you click and drag with a bit more care (so your cursor stays within the blue area) are you able to copy the text same as I am able to do in my video?
Yes, I can still work around it via holding the left mouse button+scrolling the mouse wheel to provide more control and so that the cursor stays in the blue area, but I have to do it with utmost care as the issue still persists whenever I scroll. This also meant that the “drag select” problem still occurs in my case even if my cursor does not go beyond the window. To sum up, once it scrolls (while I’m selecting several blocks and continue holding down the left mouse button), the situation occurs.
I also wanted to add that if you want to copy all the content without scrolling you can also choose this option on the right:
Thanks for the tip. this much helps as I copy everything on the code editor then delete everything I didn’t need after pasting. A single step less, but shorter nonetheless.
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Hi there!
Just wanted to let you know that the color (text and background) selectors in the block editor should be working as expected now!
Let us know if you still have this problem and we’ll be happy to take a closer look.
Thanks!
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