# Copy and paste code corruption

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/copy-and-paste-code-corruption/2960>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [April 29, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/copy-and-paste-code-corruption/2960 "2019-04-29T04:31:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/copy-and-paste-code-corruption/2960/1 "2019-04-29T04:31:25Z")

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Steps to reproduce bug:

1. Select some text in one HTML document, and copy (using Command-C shortcut).
2. Choose Edit \> Show Clipboard, and verify that the clipboard contains nothing but a simple text string.
3. Select text in another HTML document, and paste (using Command-V shortcut).

The result is a whole lot of cruft being added to the code along with the text. What should be just text, looks like this:

```
<h4 spellcheck="true" data-medium-editor-element="true" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" data-medium-editor-editor-index="6" medium-editor-index="378915f7-0b2f-3c9e-d1b8-0c316c5caeea" data-placeholder="Type your text" data-medium-focused="true">TEXT IS HERE</h4>

```

The `h4` tags were added too, so now there are nested `h4` tags, along with the rest of it. This doesn’t happen every time I copy and paste something, but often enough that I simply can’t rely on it. If I carefully select the actual text in the code view, paste works fine—but then I may as well just be hand coding in a text editor.

I’m running Pinegrow 5.41 on macOS 10.14.4.