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Fix unwanted additional spaces added around pasted text on Windows #33607

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Fix unwanted additional spaces added around pasted text on Windows #33607

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Remove the whitespace before the fragments that are provided by windows
getdave Jul 21, 2021
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Extract to util
getdave Jul 22, 2021
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Avoid creating public APIs for util and improve function naming for c…
getdave Aug 4, 2021
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Make both regexes literal
getdave Aug 12, 2021
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17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
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Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
}
}

// Remove Windows-specific metadata appended within copied HTML text.
html = removeWindowsFragments( html );

event.preventDefault();

// Allows us to ask for this information when we get a report.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -222,3 +225,17 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
};
}, [] );
}

/**
* Normalizes a given string of HTML to remove the Windows specific "Fragment" comments
* and any preceeding and trailing whitespace.
*
* @param {string} html the html to be normalized
* @return {string} the normalized html
*/
function removeWindowsFragments( html ) {
const startReg = /.*<!--StartFragment-->/s;
const endReg = /<!--EndFragment-->.*/s;

return html.replace( startReg, '' ).replace( endReg, '' );
}