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Bug 166667

Summary:	Pasting HTML code as text
Product:	web	Reporter:	testerro <testerro>
Component:	HTML Editor	Assignee:	Marek Fukala <mfukala>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description testerro 2009-06-06 12:13:14 UTC

There should be a way to paste HTML code into the Netbeans editor as text, ie. with automatic replacements of characters
like <, >, & and " to their corresponding HTML entities:

<i>"This is an example."</i>

->

&lt;i&gt;&quot;It is an example.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Having to do such conversions by hand is unfeasible for larger amounts of text and requires using an external editor for
larger amounts of text.

Comment 1 Marek Fukala 2013-01-02 12:09:28 UTC

I believe such usecase could be covered by some "convert to entities" action.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161493 ***