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On OS X: When I copy and paste from notepad I get strange characters like <br><br>. How do I get rid of this?

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cherayewmj
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When I copy and paste from notepad I get strange characters like <br><br>. How do I get rid of this?

When I copy and paste from notepad I get strange characters like &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;. How do I get rid of this?

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cherayewmj
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The characters I'm getting are the Less than symbol, br, Greater than symbol and there's 2 next to each other in between paragraphs.

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cor-el
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That are HTML 'break' tags that add an empty line or force a new line.

You would see such tags in a normal text area if you paste HTML code as plain text. If you paste in a rich text editor then you should see a new line. You can use the editor in plain text mode to prevent this.

Where do you see this happen?