Still investigating a solution. In the meantime, I've confirmed the problem is not with the web browser but rather with your editor. When using Firefox 2 and Windows Vista, I was able to copy/paste just fine into Notepad but I got line numbers when copy/pasting into Zend PHP Studio.

FireFox1.5 into VEdit -- line numbers.
FireFox1.5 into Notepad -- line numbers
Firefox1.5 into Wordpad -- line numbers

IE7 into VEdit -- one line, no formatting
IE7 into Notepad -- one line, no formatting
IE7 into Wordpad -- no formatting

Opera9 -- seems to work.

I see no reason for line numbers either. I doubt it's worth the trouble to track down the solution. And it would be too presumptuous to require a specific browser.

It would also be beneficial IMO to put back the label "code" and the lines above and below the code. Don't have to change the code format, just the head and tail.

I went ahead and implemented the same workaround DevShed uses that Dave suggested. Of course it's not that elegant ... but let's see.

I like that change -- now we can turn line numbers on and off as we please. Hope you keep this feature.

Thanks Ancient!

I second that. It wasn't that the line numbers were bad, but if they interfere with my ease of copying and pasting, then it becomes more a nuisance. This solution is great.

I went ahead and implemented this in our code snippet library as well. Here is an example:

http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet582.html

You'll notice that with the line numbers, when code is too long for the line, it very cleanly wraps around with the line number indicating it's just a wrap around. I think this is a lot nicer than the messy horizontal scrollbars, especially with very long snippets.

I think this will work. Can you tell how many line are in the code block? If so, could you please add the toggle to the top of the block also if the block is greater than, say, 30 lines? If not, just add the toggle to the top. Many times people post 2 or more (window) pages of code and if we see something we wish to comment on at the top, we have to scroll all the way down, then all the way back up. This would also delineate the block nicely.

I actually went ahead and decided to allow the code to be as long as it needs to be. I found the scrollbars incredibly annoying. I prefer to read code the same way that I do everyday in my IDE ... by utilizing the full height of my monitor, as opposed to being forced to only see a couple of lines of code at a time. I think it has something to do with me not having a photographic memory.

Click on the link "toggle plain text" which appears below the code snippet and then try copy-pasting. It works out to be fine.