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Need a "Clear Formatting" button
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- Kotlin
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Description
Expected behavior
A UI "gesture" (button?) that will remove HTML formatting, CSS styles and class names, and line breaks from content copied from another source. (I guess entire lists should be preserved, but maybe an isolated item should be de-itemed?) This would be similar to what WordPress has in its web UI.
Actual behavior
There is no such function in the Android app, as far as I can tell.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Share a tweet from Twitter's PWA in night mode but also COPY AND PASTE the text of the tweet into the post. You'll see it come out basically white on white.
This also happens when copying and pasting excerpts from news stories (NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic, etc.). Sometimes comes out with unexpected fonts and embedded line breaks.
Tested on [device], Android [version]
Samsung Galaxy S8, Android 8.0
Asus Zenpad 3s 10, Android 6.0
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start at the Android app's post editor and trace how pasted content is handled; reproduce the Twitter and news-copy cases. Done means a discoverable control removes HTML formatting, CSS styles, class names, and unwanted line breaks while preserving intended lists, with behavior verified on the stated Android devices.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100