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When pasting text with a link into a Miro board, the link gets stripped leaving only plain text in Edge.  Pasting the same text into other programs preserves the links, so not sure what is going on here.

 

Any idea what’s going on here?

@Jamie Lester 

Hmmm . . . could you provide a few more details? I am not sure what you mean by Edge?

I just tested this by composing text with a hyperlink in MS Outlook,

 

and when I copy the text and create a textbox in Miro and then paste the text into the textbox, the hyperlink is recognized:

 

Also maybe you mean you are using Miro in the Windows Edge browser?  Sadly I have a Mac, but pasting works in both the Miro app for Mac as well as the Google chrome browser as well as Safari.  But . . . if the text has a “string” such as http://spiegel.de which is just a string and not actually a hyperlink, then Miro will not show a hyperlink. So it (seems) to be important for the original text to really by a hyperlink, not just a string that looks like a hyperlink.

Cheers, Ken


@Jamie Lester There does appear to be a bug - please leave a comment on this post to receive updates on the issues:

https://community.miro.com/developer-platform-and-apis-57/investigating-hyperlink-stripped-when-pasted-to-board-in-edge-26356

@Kenneth Ritley It is the embedded hyperlink formatting that is being removed, e.g., Go to Google's site. is being displayed as Go to Google's site. when pasted into Miro. 


This happens because Edge sometimes strips formatting when copying from certain sources. Try these workarounds:

  1. Use Ctrl+Shift+V (Paste as plain text) in Miro, then manually add links.

  2. Copy the link directly from the URL bar instead of the text body.

  3. Try using Chrome or Firefox — they often preserve links better when pasting into Miro.

Edge’s clipboard handling is likely causing the links to be lost.


@Daniel Jackson Thanks for sharing, but in this case, we can paste these embedded hyperlinks in Miro Docs in Edge and they are retained, but are now being lost in Miro text objects. This appears to be a behaviour change in Edge + Miro as the links are retained when using Chrome. And, the links are retained when pasting into other web apps.