Cutting and pasting an image with a caption within the same post will result in loss of caption.

[rothschild86]

As title says. Applies to the rich editor.

The caption should persist through the copy and paste.

[rianrietveld]

To kick some life in this ticket:
If you add an image with a caption to the content in visual mode and copy/paste it to another spot in the content, the caption text is copied but no longer inside the caption shortcode and associated with the image.
See for YouTube demo: ​https://youtu.be/Dkg9oQHsaNQ

Is this a bug or just not possible cc @azaozz / @iseulde

[azaozz]

Replying to rianrietveld:

It's (mostly) a bug :)

The problem is that the "wrapper tag" for the image with caption has to be selected and copied. Then it will retain the caption. Same for dragging it to the desired place inside the editor.

There is a workaround: click on the image, then look at the bottom of the editor at the "element path" (to see it you need to open the second toolbar row). It should look like:

div » dl » dt » img

Clicking on the div will select everything. Then copy and paste.

Can try to improve this. If it is non-editable, clicking on the image should select the wrapper tags too.

[rianrietveld]

Thanks @azaozz Tried the workaround and that works perfectly.

[azaozz]

Don't see a straightforward way to fix this. Trying to (artificially) extend the selection to include the wrapper element results in other bugs, for example not being able to edit the caption text. It's not possible to extend the selection on copy or drag, too late. The only way I see would be to leave a "placeholder" in the old location of the image after copying or dragging, then let the user paste or finish dragging and drop the image, and then to delete the content that was pasted or dropped and select and move the actual image together with the caption. Unfortunately that is pretty buggy too.

Seems the best way is to make sure the wrapper div is selected before copying, as mentioned above.

Closing as worksforme as there is a workaround. Feel free to reopen with other ideas about how to make this better.