CKEditor - Paste as text p tags for breaks instead of br

I also am looking for an answer to this. Having the entire block of text as one giant paragraph makes formatting heading tags etc extremely difficult and time consuming, not to mention this isn't semantic.

That's frustrating and almost ruins the point of this wysiwyg. I have been searching desperately for a solution and cannot find anything that's going to work for my clients.

I am using a paid plugin for ExpressionEngine, I guess I can switch to something free but what a waste.

Sorry for the late reply but we will work this feature, make it functional as v2, even better:
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/4508
You're probably have it with version 3.1.

Work around, hack the code.

Open ckeditor.js with your favorite javascript editor. Search for

l=l.replace(/(?:\r\n)|\n|\r/g,'<br>');

and replace it with

l=l.replace(/((?:\r\n)|\n|\r)\s*((?:\r\n)|\n|\r)/g,'<p>');l=l.replace(/(?:\r\n)|\n|\r/g,'<br>');

I can't downgrade to v2 just to get rid of that bug. By changing the code, there's no need for me to wait for version 3.1. I don't even know if my hack is valid; all I know is it works. I am not sure if there's no side effect (I didn't run the test suite). So if anyone, has a better work around, please post here. I desperately need this bug fixed ASAP.

garry.yao wrote:Sorry for the late reply but we will work this feature, make it functional as v2, even better:
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/4508
You're probably have it with version 3.1.

Awesome, I am so happy to at least have an answer on this! I love this editor, and now it seems nearly perfect!

otan wrote:Can you release a patch to fix this? I know that version 3.1 has many enhancements including the fix for this bug. Those 3.1 enhancements is a big change that I can wait, but I can't wait for the fix for this particular bug. I hacked version 3.0 to fix this but I'm worried of the side effects. It's better if the core developers who know CKEditor internals release a patched version. Thank you very much.

I'm sorry but we can't release patches at will, we'll have a minor bug fixing release every 1.5 month before 3.1 is born, so we'll probably fix that even before 3.1. I can confirm the hack you have there have no side effects ( don't break other functionality ), so it probably could be the work around for you now.

I had made a plugin that handle paste with paragraphs on the base of pastetext plugin.

I use it with hotkey SHIFT-V with IE8 to be able to paste quicker without dialogs or even click a button. For that in config. js i have:

   config.keystrokes =
   [
       [ CKEDITOR.ALT + 121 /*F10*/, 'toolbarFocus' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.ALT + 122 /*F11*/, 'elementsPathFocus' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.SHIFT + 121 /*F10*/, 'contextMenu' ],

       [ CKEDITOR.SHIFT + 86 /*V*/, 'pastespecial' ],

       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 90 /*Z*/, 'undo' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 89 /*Y*/, 'redo' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + CKEDITOR.SHIFT + 90 /*Z*/, 'redo' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 76 /*L*/, 'link' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 66 /*B*/, 'bold' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 73 /*I*/, 'italic' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.CTRL + 85 /*U*/, 'underline' ],
       [ CKEDITOR.ALT + 109 /*-*/, 'toolbarCollapse' ]
   ];

I just made it so i have not tested it continiously. This paste don't allow empty <p> tags. So if you have

text1
[newline]
[newline]
text2

will become like there was one newline

<p>text1</p>
<p>text2</p>

Bossman wrote:
From

Text 1

Text 2

to:

<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>

Which is exactly what we needed.

This's already working in current version (Two line-breaks map to one <p>, one maps to <br />), while the plugin @noefekts provide the mapping from each line-break to one paragraph.

How is it possible to enable this feature in the current editor version?

I need the editor to create a paragraph for each line, instead of using <br/>... If a text with paragraphs is copy-pasted, they are set correctly, but I need the conversion every time, also when copying regular unformatted text.

How?
Thanks
~Aki

Has this change been made yet?

I looked through the changelog and I couldn't find ticket #4508

I'm using ckeditor v3.4.1 and when I paste from plain text it still uses <br/> instead of closing the paragraph </p> and starting a new one <p>

Is there something I need to set in the config file or has this change not been made?

Cheers
Tom

Hi,

I'm using 3.5.3 and CKEditor still pastes text with BRs, while I need Ps instead of them.
I have CKEditor installed as Drupal 6 module.

Example text I posted here, take Raw part.
http://pastebin.com/ryjc4axu

I tried pasting using Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Shift-V, using 3 different pasting dialogs from the toolbar - nothing helps, I got this hated BRs:

<p>В 1996 стал Председателем Союза театральных деятелей России, с 2001&nbsp; членом Совета по культуре и искусству при Президенте РФ; в 2005 году вошел в состав Общественной Палаты РФ, возглавив Комиссию по вопросам развития культуры.<br />
А.А.Калягин&nbsp; один из крупнейших артистов современного российского театра и кино. Родился 25 мая 1942, в поселке Малмыж, Кировской области. Окончил медицинское училище № 14, работал фельдшером на Скорой помощи. Затем закончил Театральное училище им. Б.В.Щукина. Начинал свою карьеру в театре на Таганке, затем работал в Театре им. М.Н. Ермоловой, был приглашен О.Н. Ефремовым в &laquo;Современник&raquo;, а затем вместе с ним ушел во МХАТ, где проработал около тридцати лет.<br />
...

I banged my head against the wall and tried all the config options possible but couldn't get this to work. I finally setup the following, which works perfectly for me. It basically just replaces the <br> tags with <p> tags (closing it first like </p><p> does not work even though that seemed to make more sense) after ckeditor has done all it's processing on the pasted data. For whatever reason e.data.text and e.data.html (that other posts pointed to) were always undefined for me but .dataValue worked.

CKEDITOR.replace('editor', {

on: {
        paste: function(e) {
            if (e.data.dataValue !== 'undefined')
                e.data.dataValue = e.data.dataValue.replace(/(\<br ?\/?\>)+/gi, '<p>');
        }
    }

}