Unable to copy-paste into a few fields in Safari

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Unable to copy-paste into a few fields in Safari

Hello, can anybody tell me why you cannot paste text copied from programs, such as Excel into some of the fields in Safari? Take this website as an example: http://www.banamex.com/estudiosfinanzas/finanzas/divisasmetales.htm
it is a currency converter. at the bottom right there is a field "Cantidad". You cannot paste anything in there, you have to type. If you open that same link in another browser, you will be able to paste into that field. Can anybody help? Thanks very much!

2010 27in iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Apr 9, 2011 10:20 PM

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Answer 1

andyBall_uk

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Apr 10, 2011 5:15 AM in response to Jorge_Gonzalez

Hi Jorge

your example is the same for me in Safari & Firefox, neither allow pasting, but Camino does.
It's due to a javascript function deliberately set on that field to allow (validate) only certain numbers (no letters etc, only 2 decimal places) - disable javascript & it works more normally.

Presumably, Firefox & Safari present pasted data in a way that triggers the website javascript function to reject it, regardless of the correct content.

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Answer 2

Apr 10, 2011 6:17 AM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi Andy,

Thanks very much. Disabling Javascript allows to paste. Unfortunately the site doesn't quite work without Javascript enabled. I mean the conversion doesn't happen when yo press "Result". There's another website where, after pasting a number and clicking on a button, should take you to a new window with information and that doesn't work either.

I guess I'll have to use Chrome.

Thanks very much for your time.

Jorge...

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