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Copied table from Excel is pasted as raw HTML #82

@hikanema

Description

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To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Copy table from example_table.xlsx
image
  1. Open Google Chrome and navigated to Web UI on GHES 3.8 instance (This issue is reproduced in GitHub.com as well)

  2. Paste it on a issue comment. It is pasted as raw HTML.

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>

<meta name=ProgId content=Excel.Sheet>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Excel 15">
<link id=Main-File rel=Main-File
href="file:////Users/hikanema/Library/Group%20Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/TemporaryItems/msohtmlclip/clip.htm">
<link rel=File-List
href="file:////Users/hikanema/Library/Group%20Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/TemporaryItems/msohtmlclip/clip_filelist.xml">
<style>
<!--table
	{mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\.";
	mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}
@page
	{margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in;
	mso-header-margin:.3in;
	mso-footer-margin:.3in;}
.font5
	{color:windowtext;
	font-size:6.0pt;
	font-weight:400;
	font-style:normal;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-family:游ゴシック;
	mso-generic-font-family:auto;
	mso-font-charset:128;}
tr
	{mso-height-source:auto;
	mso-ruby-visibility:none;}
col
	{mso-width-source:auto;
	mso-ruby-visibility:none;}
br
	{mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
td
	{padding-top:1px;
	padding-right:1px;
	padding-left:1px;
	mso-ignore:padding;
	color:black;
	font-size:12.0pt;
	font-weight:400;
	font-style:normal;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-family:游ゴシック;
	mso-generic-font-family:auto;
	mso-font-charset:128;
	mso-number-format:General;
	text-align:general;
	vertical-align:middle;
	border:none;
	mso-background-source:auto;
	mso-pattern:auto;
	mso-protection:locked visible;
	white-space:nowrap;
	mso-rotate:0;}
ruby
	{ruby-align:left;}
rt
	{color:windowtext;
	font-size:6.0pt;
	font-weight:400;
	font-style:normal;
	text-decoration:none;
	font-family:游ゴシック;
	mso-generic-font-family:auto;
	mso-font-charset:128;
	mso-char-type:katakana;
	display:none;}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">



a | b
-- | --
1 | 2



</body>

</html>

Expected behavior
When I pasted the same excel table in Safari, it was formatted as Markdown style.

a | b
-- | --
1 | 2

Screenshots
Copy and paste table from Excel results in both raw HTML and Markdown. It depends on browser

Raw HTML in Chrome
image

Markdown in Safari
image

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