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Copy text from description

William Faulk November 18, 2021

The mere act of trying to copy text from an issue's description is a huge pain.

As soon as I click in the description, it converts into an editable area and moves the text around. Which means that I have to click one place and then move my mouse pointer to actually highlight the text I want to copy. I usually forget about this and try to double-click to select a whole word and that has the same results, failing to select the word I double-clicked, but sometimes managing to highlight the word that happens to be underneath my mouse pointer once it's all shifted.

Also, once I highlight the data and copy it, if it's multiline data, it collapses the newlines into spaces, so my twenty lines of data is now all jammed into a single line that I then have to paste into a separate editor to add the newlines back into.

Is there a better way?

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Alex Koxaras -Relational-
Community Champion
November 18, 2021

@William Faulk sorry to hear about that.

However I don;t have the same experience as you. Can you share a video of what exactly is going on your instance? This doesn't seem like a normal behaviour.

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G subramanyam
Community Champion
November 18, 2021

Hi @William Faulk welcome to the Atlassian community.

I certainly understand your point. May I request you to share suggestions that you think can be implemented on this Atlassian support link.

Jesse Strode
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May 17, 2022

Not OP but I'd suggest a dedicated edit button so that text is clickable and highlightable without having it transform into a editable field. Its been a real pain in my UX for a while.

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