Manually selected and copied text contains styling / background color
Open 💬 0 comments Opened May 18, 2026 by LukasFB
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.513.31313
What subscription do you have?
Pro 20x
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.4.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
Manually selected and copied text contains formatting / background color if the selection includes the first word of the answer. The copy button (or not selecting the first word) sidesteps that, but it goes against muscle memory
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/44e162df-47c6-4148-bd8f-71c3cf3924a4
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Select and copy an agent message from the very beginning and paste into rich-text App (like Apple Mail). Pasted text is then displayed with the background color from the Codex App
What is the expected behavior?
Pasted Text should NOT be displayed with the background color from the Codex App
Additional information
_No response_