1197775 - Can't paste text into YouTube comment form

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Mikkel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150806001005

Steps to reproduce:

(1) Go to youtube. (make sure you've logged in)
(2) Find a video. 
(3) Try to paste any text like 'asfsdf' into a comment. -> 
(4) Text is not pasted. Doesn't matter if using 'right click paste' or 'ctrl + v' paste. (Pasting text like above works perfectly in Google Chrome)




Actual results:

Text not pasted. 


Expected results:

Text should have been pasted.

p.s. This bug is really annoying. I know I'm not the only one. Updating to newest version or downgrading to previous version doesn't help.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Thanks for taking the time to report this!
Does the problem still happen if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? (Safe Mode disables extensions and themes, hardware acceleration and some JavaScript stuff in order to exclude some possible reasons for problems. It does not disable plugins which are add-ons.) See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode 

And does this also happen with a new and empty profile? See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile and http://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing%20profiles

Comment 2

[Mikkel]

Hi Andre, Thanks for your swift answer.

Problem persists in safe mode/addons disabled etc.

Problem persists with new empty profile.

Regards

Comment 3

[Rezaul Huque Nayeem]

Trying to move to a more appropriate component .

Comment 4

[Ant]

This happens in SeaMonkey as well. Wouldn't this issue be Google's fault though? It started a few days for everyone.

FYI from https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/msgid/youtube/2cedba82-285e-4fdf-9532-ee77926850bf%40googleproductforums.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer thread's post as a workaround (Google still needs to fix it since they broke its paste feature):

"Solved! In just 3 steps

    open about:config in mozilla
    search dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled in the search box which comes.
    Now turn this to false.

Done
Source: http://merabheja.com/fix-can-not-paste-text-in-youtube-comments-using-mozilla/ "

Comment 5

[MarkRH]

I can confirm the above toggle of dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled does allow me to paste into YouTube comments.  40.0.3 in Win 7 Pro.  From what https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences/Preference_reference/dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled says, perhaps they are detecting and not allowing it? Why I have no idea.

Comment 6

[eguevara2012]

Another problem that is happening in the Youtube comments, the autocomplete to name another user in box comment is not working.
When entering +UserName should show several users to choose from.
Change the dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to "false" not solve the problem.
I believe that this other problem is related to the same bug copy-paste.

Comment 8

[Loic]

It's a YT issue, it doesn't work with old versions of FF. Surely a recent change in their code.

Chris, I read you know somebody at YT, could you pass this issue on him, please.

Comment 9

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This is definitely a YouTube issue. I can reproduce this problem in Firefox, IE, and Edge.

Comment 10

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I am closing this bug report because it is not a Firefox bug. Since this is a website bug, I filed a new report on webcompat.com and I will contact YouTube:

https://webcompat.com/issues/1655

Comment 11

[Loic]

NB: it doesn't work in the main comment area when the user wants to write a new comment but it works in a comment area to reply to a previous comment.

Comment 12

[Sergey Rozhenko]

Here's my fix: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/12433-fix-paste-on-youtube
Requires Scriptish/Greasemonkey.

Comment 15

[Garrett Smith]

YouTube's comment form is the classic case for using a textarea. But instead, YouTube uses a `contenteditable` div. 

One workaround is to instruct the user to use the DOM inspector to modify the div's textContent. 


1) Right Click on the comment area and choose "Inspect element" 
   When the inspector opens, the comment element is selected in the HTML tab
2) Right click that element in the HTML tab.
3) Choose "Show DOM Properties"
4) When the DOM properties open, scroll down to "textContent"
5) Paste your text into the value for "textContent". Be sure to escape newlines and quotation marks with a preceeding backslash, \.

How to Paste into YouTube Comments 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUUBT9QBJVQ

Comment 17

[u538430]

I can paste the text on Edge, Opera, and Chrome. IE and Firefox does not work.

Comment 18

[Mark John]

I was facing problem while changing YouTube channel URL, but this guide saved me and my efforts -

http://www.zerodollartips.com/change-youtube-channel-name-url/

But now facing Youtube comments issue. Help me Please !!

Comment 19

[AndriuZ]

problem still persist as of 2018/05 FFdev 61.0b6 (64-bit)

Comment 20

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to AndriuZ from comment #19)
> problem still persist as of 2018/05 FFdev 61.0b6 (64-bit)

AndriuZ, Could you report this to https://webcompat.com/ as new issue although workaround is comment #4?  Original issue might be fixed by https://webcompat.com/issues/1655, but this might be new issue.