WordPress 4.8 Pasting into editor functionality changed

[AngusMcKinnon]

Hi there,

With 4.8 the paste functionality seems to have changed in the visual editor.

When I paste a list of items into the 4.8 visual editor from a text editor it now strips all "line breaks" and I end up with one big paragraph. I can still paste the list in text view and switch back to visual view and it keeps the line breaks.

This has changed in this new version. I do this process as a daily activity.

[subrataemfluence]

Hi @AngusMcKinnon Welcome to Trac!

I copied a long list of items and pasted it in visual editor directly, which stays fine for me.
When I Edit the post the list still stays fine. And when I load the page the list comes up as it should. Please see the screenshots.

Is there a specific way to reproduce the issue?

Can you please try to reproduce the issue once again by deactivating your plugins?

[subrataemfluence]

Adding (Placed list in visual editor)

[subrataemfluence]

Page with list of items

[subrataemfluence]

Editing post (list stays as it was)

[azaozz]

Works properly here too. This may be related to where you copy the text from. Maybe try copying from few different sources: another web page, a text editor, a textarea. Can also try refreshing the browser cache. If still the same, maybe try disabling any plugins that add functionality to the editor and switch to a default theme.

[AngusMcKinnon]

Hm. I tried again this afternoon with notepad and editpad and linebreaks stripped. Ill have a go with turning off plugins and report back.

[AngusMcKinnon]

WP bug

[AngusMcKinnon]

I turned off all WP plugins, all Chrome plugins, cleared the cache and still all line breaks get stripped. I didn't disable the theme I am using, but it is one of the top selling themes and no one has reported an issue. The only thing that changed was the WP upgrade. Its a process I have done every day for 6 months and the only variable was the update.

[AngusMcKinnon]

Minor update - I installed 2017 theme and all linebreaks still stripped using that.