Change inner input elements from DIV to SPAN #93
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This affects how text is copied and pasted from various browsers with 'block' display properties inserting newline characters and 'table-cell' display properties inserting tabs. This does mean that the input DIV now adapts to the size of its content as attempts to specify width and height have an adverse effect. The net effect of these changes is that copying any portion of a ReplPad session should no longer have extaneous characters.
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May need to monitor that there's no issues with using a SPAN this way. I see this issue with making a SPAN content-editable, however I sense this may be primarily on account of it's default behaviour as display: inline and that changing that to display: inline-block should mitigate that issue. At the very least, it may be that a DIV would work just as well and that the copy functionality is more dependent on the display value. |
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Great!!! This has been the issue that has been annoying me the most about the ReplPad (and kind of a psychological block toward looking into optimizing anything else due to questioning if there was something wrong with the basic premise of how the whole thing is being done) It seems that I'm not getting the right click menu with "paste" enabled any longer when I'm at the console prompt, however. I don't know how easy that is to see on the mac, but if you could try: ...and run through those tests, it shows some of what I'm shooting for. Seems to also have a problem right now in the jump-to-bottom where if I'm scrolled up and type the Now that you have an up-to-the-minute familiarity, it would be ideal if you could comment on what the potential might be for embedding graphics or other elements, as we might think of "rich" answers fitting into the transcript. Try: So I'd kind of want a second opinion on whether you look at the DOM structure and think "yes, this looks like a forward-thinking kind of model for a 'rich console' that could be embedded in lots of different kinds of pages" or if you spot something wonky. I'd like to be able to have the panels for the console in very light frameworks like how it is done currently... or in heavier ones: |
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The TEST-REPL points to the issue where BrianOtto had once tinkered at things to get the right click menu to have paste: So maybe something in there and your change are related to why it's not working now (?) |
This affects how text is copied and pasted from various browsers with 'block' display properties inserting newline characters and 'table-cell' display properties inserting tabs. This does mean that the input DIV now adapts to the size of its content as attempts to specify width and height have an adverse effect.
The net effect of these changes is that copying any portion of a ReplPad session should no longer have extaneous characters.