I already asked this question in the "IE 11 -> Windows 7" forum but was directed here as well as other places. Not sure why, as I am not an IE 11 developer, just auser. If this is the wrong place, it was "R_Dyer" who directed me here.
I have a critical task that requires being able to copy an entire webpage to plaintext. I accomplish this by displaying the HTML in IE 11, then pressing Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-C, then switching to Notepad++ v6.1.2 and pressing Ctrl-V.
In the past, for over a year, this process copied the text of the webpage, stripping out all formatting except that each horizontal bar (HTML <hr> element) from the webpage was pasted into plaintext as a line of dashes (---------...). This behavior turned out to be key to the feasibility of a crucial postprocessing script.
As of today, suddenly copy-pasting in the same way no longer produces the dashes. Attempting to paste into applications other than Notepad++ all give the same result, so I tentatively conclude that IE 11 has stopped including <hr> elements in the data placed into the clipboard by the Copy operation.
Neither Windows, IE, nor Notepad++ have been updated in the last few days, and I'm pretty sure the machine does not automatically perform Windows Updates. For what it's worth, the machine is 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am accessing it via DameWare Remote Control (not sure what version) from a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
I am racking my brains for any possible idea of a setting that I could have changed that would influence such a subtle thing; any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris Chiesa