HOW-TO: Copy/Paste Essays in Safari and Chrome

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>The guys at the Common App decided we Mac users (or anyone who prefers Chrome) didn't need copy/paste functionality. Here's quick script to reenable copy/pasting:</p>

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javascript: void($("textarea").each(function() { this.onpaste = this.onbeforepaste = this.ondragenter = this.ondragover = this.ondrop = null; }));

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<p>Navigate to the appropriate page on the Common App, then copy/paste the above script into your address bar and hit entire. Voila! Copy/paste is magically re-enabled.</p>

<p>NOTICE: This script is not malicious. It simply finds all textareas on the page, selects each one, and tells your browser to perform the null action (that is, behave normally) when pasting, before pasting, when dragging, and when dropping.</p>

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<p>thank you. I should start working on my javascript skills</p>

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<p>This was SUCH a pain. Wish S had checked here before finishing up. The CA guys need to move into the 21st century!</p>

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<p>They’ll supposedly have this fixed for next year. Thank goodness.</p>

<p>I hear last year students didn’t have the buttons to move activities up and down. I can only imagine how painful that must have been.</p>

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<p>My son was able to upload his essay without a problem but could not post short essays in the Univ of Roch. supplement. He emailed the Common app but they only suggested to post it sentence at a time which did not work so he ended up retyping it. Luckily it was short.</p>

<p>I wonder if the above suggestion would help for similar trouble posting on supplements.</p>

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<p>Lakemom, it certainly would have. (I used it for my U of R app myself, actually. Small world!)</p>

<p>All the text fields on the Common App (supplement or otherwise) have the same asinine setup that prevents copy/pasting in Safari and Chrome. Uploading generally seems to be reliable, though it occasionally breaks in Firefox.</p>

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<p>So concerned, how did you figure this out what the code is to break the block to pasting? They ought to make stickie of your fix and put in at the top of this forum in case this isn’t fixed for next year.</p>

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<p>paste & match style works in safari :)</p>

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<p>Lakemom, I’ve been doing some web development for a while now, so it didn’t take too much digging. Safari (and Chrome) have a hidden error console that point out the offending Javascript code, so I just wrote a quick script to dynamically fix the bug. :)</p>

<p>Hoping4U, what version of Safari are you using? I’ve heard that, but I couldn’t get it to work myself.</p>

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<p>Here’s a quick fix: just install this extension that runs the code on every page load for safari, chrome, or firefox.
[Common</a> Application Paste Fix](<a href=“http://therealmeaningof.com/commonapp-paste-fix]Common”>http://therealmeaningof.com/commonapp-paste-fix)</p>

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<p>version 5.0.5</p>

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<p>The ‘foo’ alert that pops up on every common app page (for the Safari extension) is mighty annoying >.< Nice work, though!</p>