Code Snippets - Not longer able to copy

Hi John Dorlon,

On the latest beta, the Code Snippets now are "grayed out" and you cannot copy them (CTRL-C) to paste them into your code.

It let's you go through the motions of selecting them and copying, but when you paste them, It only pasts the "title" of the Code Snippet.

I highlight this and ctrl-c then paste and this is what pastes:

I cannot use it any longer, the beta, due to this.

The last PROD version and all previous betas show it "NOT GRAYED"

and when I copy and paste WHAT IS SELECTED, it pastes like this:

Most times I don't want to select the entire snippet to copy. Sometimes I do, but others times now.

And it also does work on beta to copy the entire snippet. When you "right-click" on the snippet title and choose copy. It still only copies the snippet title, not the entire contents of the snippet.

And when you Paste, it just pastes the title of the code snippet.

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At this point, it has no use to save snippets if you can only view them. I cannot use the beta due to this as this is something I do all the time :).

I imagine this was a mistake in trying to "render" the snippets in "grayed out" view, but I think it has had the unintended consequence of not even allowing you use them any longer.

Is this something that can be "undone"?

Jeff Garner

Hi Jeff,

I have been in the process of switching out our controls to a different kind in order to support screen readers. Little changes like this may pop up while I am in this process, but unhelpful changes like this one are unintentional and I will fix them once I know about them.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and please let me know if you discover anything else.

The problem isn't that it's gray (that's to signify "read only" by the way). It's just the control type change, and our "Copy" code needed a corresponding change. It will still be gray, but it will be fixed for next beta.

-John

By the way, as a workaround...

Right-click in the lower section and choose "Copy". That works.

Thanks very much and you are welcome for letting you know. The work around with the right-click copy on the grayed out text works great, so I can go back to the beta. :).

Such great support here.

Thanks again.

Jeff