Pasting into HTML macro partially decodes HTML

[Rolf]

I've noticed that pasting into an HTML macro (old editor) has recently broken.

If you do something as simple as type this:

>

And then copy and paste it, it will be pasted as ">" instead of "&gt;".  This breaks my ability to use HTML macros.  I paste in relatively large blocks of HTML that include hundreds of &gt; and &lt; which now get replaced by <> which ends up being invalid HTML.

[David Šerý]

Hello, was the ticket already created / issue solved? The only thing I found was this page, which neither has a reply not a ticket attached. (https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/paste-html-character-entity-references-like-lt-is-immediately-decoded-by-macro-body-editors/36796)

I am facing the same issue currently and would love to have a good solution.

[Rolf]

I raised a bug on another page.  The bug was acknowledged years ago, but no progress has been made on a fix.  I get the impression that they have no interest in fixing this.

In the end, I created a script to escape all my HTML before copying it into the clipboard.  That way, when I pasted, it looked correct.

[Brendan Patterson]

Hi @Rolf ,   Is this for the Confluence Cloud HTML app found here?

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212279/html-macro-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

If so then please open a ticket here if you haven't already:

https://artemis.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/group/-1

Thanks!

Brendan