Pasted text takes on style at cursor location

[Damian]

To reproduce:

1. Open nightly Ajax sample
   
2. Type some text on a few lines
   
3. Apply color to the last line of text and hit ENTER
   
4. Select the text in the first line of the document
   
5. Paste the selected text at the end of the document
   

Result: The pasted text takes on the color change instead of keeping its own style.

This applies to other styles also, e.g. bold/italic etc.

[Garry Yao]

WFM, could you please give more detail on reproducing?

[Damian]

Please try to reproduce with the steps provided in IE7. Works ok in FF3.

After adding text the following source is created:

<p>
	asdasdasdasd</p>
<p>
	asdasdasdasd</p>
<p>
	<span style="color: #b22222">adasdasdasdas</span></p>

Copy the first two paragraphs by selecting them with mouse and using CTRL+C. Place cursor at the end of the last line, hit ENTER and press CTRL+V.

The resulting HTML is:

<p>
	asdasdasdasd</p>
<p>
	asdasdasdasd</p>
<p>
	<span style="color: #b22222">adasdasdasdas</span></p>
<p>
	<span style="color: #b22222">asdasdasdasd</span></p>
<p>
	<span style="color: #b22222">asdasdasdasd</span></p>

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

The problem here is that clipboard operations are totally out of the editor control. It's controlled by both the source and the target applications (in this case the browser). We're not able to provide a formatting option list after pasting, just like Word does. And actually, the expected behavior is relative (that's the reason why word shows formatting options on pasting). Some users may expect having the text in colored in the above case.