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Copy and Paste in the Grid Editing Mode

The selection in the Grid mode is a bit complex compared to the selection in a text component. It consists of a currently selected cell and additional selected cells. These additional cells are either selected with the cursor, or implied by the currently selected cell. To be more specific, consider that you click the name of the column (this becomes the current selected cell), but the editor automatically extends the selection so that it contains all the cells from that column. The currently selected cell is painted with a color that is different from the rest of the selection.

You can also select discontinuous regions of nodes and place them in the clipboard with the copy action. To deselect one of the selected fragments, use Ctrl + Single-Click (Command + Single-Click on OS X).

Pasting Content Within Grid Mode

You can paste the copied nodes relative to the currently selected cell using one of the following actions (available in the contextual menu):

  • Paste (Ctrl + V (Command + V on OS X)) - Pastes the content, as a sibling, just below (after) the current selection.
  • Paste as Child - Pastes the content as the last child of the current selection.

Pasting Content from Grid Mode to Other Edtiors

Nodes that are copied from the Grid editor can also be pasted into the Text editor or other applications. When copying from the Grid into the Text editor or other text based applications, the inserted string represents the nodes serialization. The nodes from tables can be copied using HTML or RTF in table format. The resulting cells contain only the concatenated values of the text nodes.

Copying from Grid to Other Editors

Pasting Content from Other Editors into Grid Mode

You can also paste well-formed XML content or tab separated values from other editors into the Grid editor. If you paste XML content, the result will be the insertion of the nodes obtained by parsing this content.

Pasting XML Data into Grid

If the pasted text contains multiple lines of tab-separated values, it can be considered as a matrix of values. By pasting this matrix of values into the Grid editor, the result will be a matrix of cells. If the operation is performed inside existing cells, the existing values will be overwritten and new cells will be created when needed. This is useful, for example, when trying to transfer data from spreadsheet-like editors to the Grid editor.

Pasting Tab-Separated Values into Grid

Parent topic: Editing XML Documents in Grid Mode

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