[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33712: Press This: Multiple paragraphs in source text are quoted as a single paragraph

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#33712: Press This: Multiple paragraphs in source text are quoted as a single
paragraph
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 Reporter:  rachelmcr     |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Press This    |     Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by azaozz):

 There are two ways this can be done:

 - We can make "pseudo" paragraphs. `window.getSelection().toString()`
 returns the text with line breaks which follow the visible layout. We can
 replace `\n\n` with `<p>` and `\n` with `<br>`, or just run it through
 wpautop(). This will approximate the original layout but will not use any
 of the HTML, so if there is a link in the selection, only the linked text
 will be shown. The advantage is that this will produce very clean,
 minimal, safe HTML from the selection.

 - We can get the selected range and "extract" the HTML. This will bring
 all sorts of tags and attributes, so will have to run it through pretty
 restrictive kses filter. In many cases this will also contain divs which
 don't work well in the editor. At first look this seems better, but the
 selection will have to be filtered/cleaned quite a lot to make it suitable
 for the editor.

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