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A Problem with ChordPro and Firefox

Started by ElleBiba, November 20, 2025, 10:11:16 PM

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ElleBiba

Hi there,

I copy lyrics and chords from Ultimate Guitar and paste them into the lyrics window. Then I press [C] once to remove the square brackets for [Intro], [Verse], etc. 
When I press [C] again, the chords are converted into ChordPro format. But this only works for half of the song, while the other half ends up completely misaligned.

The photos show my version of Firefox, then the result in Firefox, and the same result in Edge.

Could you, dear Arlo, take a look at this?

Many thanks, 
Elle


arlo

What does that song look like after you click the button to remove the brackets around the headings but before you click the button again to add the brackets around the chords?

ElleBiba

Hi Arlo,

I will put some pictures to show the intermediate results.
One picture shows the Lyrics page after I clicked the [C] to remove the Brackets. The other pichture shows a bit of the source code.

arlo

After removing the square brackets from the headings, please select all the text and then click the Clear Formatting button (Tx icon). Then click the ChordPro Tools button again to put brackets around the chords. Does that fix it?

It's possible that removing the formatting might change the chord alignments and then the automatic bracketing won't work correctly. In that case you would need to manually place the chords. Alternatively, you could look for a source to copy and paste from that uses spaces instead of custom formatting for the manual chord positioning, or that uses ChordPro formatting so the conversion to ChordPro isn't necessary.

ElleBiba

This doesn't work properly. Here too, the lower part of the text is being stretched apart.

The problem only occurs with Firefox! Chrome and Edge work exactly as expected.

I will probably switch to Chrome or Edge in the future when using Bandhelper. I just thought you might be interested in Firefox's behavior.