plotly / plotly/dash

Dialog box message not copiable if contains \n character

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Description

Thank you so much for helping improve the quality of Dash!

We do our best to catch bugs during the release process, but we rely on your help to find the ones that slip through.

Describe your context
Usign Dash for a Jira REST API Client, need to have a dynamic confirmDialog

  • replace the result of pip list | grep dash below
dash                  1.19.0
dash-core-components  1.15.0
dash-html-components  1.1.2
dash-renderer         1.9.0
dash-table            4.11.2
  • if frontend related, tell us your Browser, Version and OS

    • OS: ubuntu18.04
    • Browser chrome
    • Version 89

Describe the bug

When setting message value of dcc.ConfirmDialog if a \n character is present the message text can't be copied, works if no \n is present

Expected behavior

We wanted to have a list of issue keys in the dialog box to be copied, but the text can't be copied if it has a \n character in it

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Research direction

Start at the dcc.ConfirmDialog component and reproduce the issue with a message containing a newline in Chrome on Ubuntu. Check how the dialog renders and exposes its text, then verify that a list of issue keys can be selected and copied when the message includes newline characters.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, react
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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