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my-kl
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May 12, 2021
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Why does Teams always strip indentation when pasting text?

It's fairly common to want to post code in teams (without using the special formatting for code snippets). The markdown like syntax for code works pretty well when typing code and it preserves ind...
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    my-kl
    May 14, 2021

    my-kl 

    So I got to the heart of the matter. I used the https://evercoder.github.io/clipboard-inspector/ to inspect the contents of clipboard when copying the same text from two different apps. Both have two entries. One of the entries is text/html and one is text/plain. The text/plain as you might guess is identical. The html is quite different. I then copied the html and rendered.

    This is what I see from TextEdit

     

    This is what I see from Visual Studio Code

     

    So this would appear to be an issue with my environment in Visual Studio Code (or even a defect in Code, I"m not sure)

     

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dandante
Copper Contributor
Dec 06, 2021

my-kl There is a way to paste into a Teams chat and have indentation preserved. 

First click on the "Format" icon 


Then click on the "Code Snippet" icon


Inside a code snippet you can paste code and indentation is preserved.

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my-kl
Brass Contributor
Dec 06, 2021
Yes, I made note of that in my original post:

> Unless we take the extra effort to use a code snippet.