TinyMCE Paste As Plain Text

Question

This is one of the common issue with RTEs on web. Could you please guide me through how to:

1. Paste as the PLAIN TEXT
2. Retain the HTML but remove the WORD/HTML styling

I want to do it directly on paste (paste_preprocess callback), without opening the dialogs provided by Paste plugins.

Any thoughts/experiences ?

Thanks,

Imran

Answer 1

This is what i do to get paste plain text.

1. paste_preprocess setting (in tinymce init)

paste_preprocess : function(pl, o) {   //example: keep bold,italic,underline and paragraphs   //o.content = strip_tags( o.content,'<b><u><i><p>' );    // remove all tags => plain text   o.content = strip_tags( o.content,'' ); }, 

2. function strip_tags (on the main document)

// Strips HTML and PHP tags from a string  // returns 1: 'Kevin <b>van</b> <i>Zonneveld</i>' // example 2: strip_tags('<p>Kevin <img src="someimage.png" onmouseover="someFunction()">van <i>Zonneveld</i></p>', '<p>'); // returns 2: '<p>Kevin van Zonneveld</p>' // example 3: strip_tags("<a href='http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net'>Kevin van Zonneveld</a>", "<a>"); // returns 3: '<a href='http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net'>Kevin van Zonneveld</a>' // example 4: strip_tags('1 < 5 5 > 1'); // returns 4: '1 < 5 5 > 1' function strip_tags (str, allowed_tags) {      var key = '', allowed = false;     var matches = [];    var allowed_array = [];     var allowed_tag = '';     var i = 0;     var k = '';     var html = '';      var replacer = function (search, replace, str) {         return str.split(search).join(replace);     };     // Build allowes tags associative array     if (allowed_tags) {         allowed_array = allowed_tags.match(/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/gi);     }     str += '';      // Match tags     matches = str.match(/(<\/?[\S][^>]*>)/gi);     // Go through all HTML tags     for (key in matches) {         if (isNaN(key)) {                 // IE7 Hack             continue;         }          // Save HTML tag         html = matches[key].toString();         // Is tag not in allowed list? Remove from str!         allowed = false;          // Go through all allowed tags         for (k in allowed_array) {            // Init             allowed_tag = allowed_array[k];             i = -1;              if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('<'+allowed_tag+'>');}             if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('<'+allowed_tag+' ');}             if (i != 0) { i = html.toLowerCase().indexOf('</'+allowed_tag)   ;}              // Determine             if (i == 0) {                allowed = true;                 break;             }         }         if (!allowed) {             str = replacer(html, "", str); // Custom replace. No regexing         }     }     return str; }