Questions tagged [copy-paste]
Copy and Paste is a technique for replicating content (text or data) from one location to another, leaving the original untouched.
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What does iOS's paste permission accomplish that just allowing pasting would not?
On iOS 16 (and maybe others), if I go to one app (ABC), select something, go to another app (DEF) and pick "paste", I get a prompt about "allow pasting from app ABC to app DEF?" My ...
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Should I issue a toast when something is copied to clipboard?
I'm working on a web-app with a button that copies some text to the users clipboard when clicked. I currently don't throw up a toast since I feel it would be excess noise (it's quite a simple copy ...
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Uploading images - copying multiple form fields from one to multiple elements
Issue: We have an image upload form where the user needs to fill in several form fields related to each image, such as the author, description, expiration date, and comment. Some of these fields will ...
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Is there any drawbacks in continuing to copy files in background when conflict occurs?
Any time I see this dialog, the whole process stops. It happens in standard OS file manager, FileZilla, MEGA (cloud) and other file managing software. It always bothered me when I can't answer to ...
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Are there easier names for Ripple Editing?
When editing with timelines (ie, mostly audio/video), there exists a very useful but also very obscure concept of Ripple Editing. The idea being that edits you make (primarily: Cut, Paste, Delete) &...
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What kind of behavior should occur if a user tries to copy a value and it is not possible to copy it or returns null? [closed]
In an application I am working on when trying to copy a value sometimes there is no value that is returned and we tell the user that there is no value. However, the part I am curious about is what ...
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Best mobile UI design for deselecting a categorized list of selected items?
Very broadly speaking, I'm developing an application where you search for a keyword, then the application displays a list of items. Each item has a classification. Selecting items by clicking a ...
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Any UX implications: Smart quotes and apostrophes when pasting from Word?
I have a question that I've found very little info on and it's only lately I've begun to become more curious about it. Our web team normally copies content from Word into a CMS to update the website. ...
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Copy Value From Cell in Column A to Column B And Vice Versa
I don't know how to exactly describe the Problem with words. I hope it is self-explanatory what the UI does. I can think of two variants of the Copy-Arrows. I am looking for User-Studies or at least ...
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What would be a reason to scramble posts' dates during copy-and-paste (as Facebook recently started doing)?
As a UX engineer, I try to stay current with best practices. I noticed that Facebook recently changed their HTML to be scrambled for the datetime of a post. I'm wondering why that would be a good ...
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What page would you expect when you copy?
In our platform, we're currently implementing a new 'copy' functionality for forms. There's a list of forms and a copy icon on the right that a user clicks - a message appears asking the user if they'...
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Highlighting text in a selectable container
We have an issue where a user can click into the cell of a table, and the table will sort based on that selection. But, we also have research that shows users want to be able to select the content of ...
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Usability of having a mailto link open a popover prompting the user to copy the email address to clipboard or open their default mail application
I've been thinking about how to handle mailto links on a website redesign, and I know that having an email address listed can make a user feel more comfortable about contacting rather than just a ...
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User needs to paste clipboard data into website with CTRL+V, but the data they paste will not be shown to them. How can I make this intuitive?
I am changing a form where we have users paste some data from clipboard (copied from excel) and fill out a few metadata fields about the data. Previously in the design we were able to have a button ...
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Do people actually use "copy" buttons on websites?
I'm currently building a webapp and want to give people an easy way to copy and paste their content to another tool. The content itself is formatted quite strangely on our website (for a number of ...
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