Questions remove HTML tags which makes asking BeautifulSoup/Selenium questions tricky

[gbmerrall]

When interacting with Gemini with selemiun or beautiful soup, I often ask questions on how to locate a specific tag by some weird condition. However when I ask the question, the tags are removed.

For example:
Locate an element based on a custom attribute. In the sample below I would like to locate the based on the value of data-th. Then I would like return the value of the datetime attribute from the element

However at least in the UI, the text displayed is:
Locate an element based on a custom attribute. In the sample below I would like to locate the based on the value of data-th. Then I would like return the value of the datetime attribute from the element

I'm unsure if this is just a visual issue or if the elements don't make it through to Gemini . If the elements are stripped before being passed to Gemini this could impact the quality of the answer.

Extension version: 2.21.0
VS Code version: Code 1.95.3 (Universal) (f1a4fb101478ce6ec82fe9627c43efbf9e98c813, 2024-11-13T14:50:04.152Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 24.1.0
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[davidponder]

Hello!

Thanks for reporting this issue. We'll take a look at this. If you happen to see this issue again locally, could you try submitting feedback by opening the Gemini Code Assist status bar -> Send Feedback option? That will provide us some logs to help deduce if this is just a visual oddity.

Thanks!