Paste as Plain Text fails when pasting multiple paragraphs from Word

I am attempting to paste multiple paragraphs from Word that have some hightlights and margin. However, whenever I paste more than one paragraph, I receive the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object function Object() { [native code] } has no method 'exec'

I can not seem to replicate within the CKEditor contained on this site. However, if I paste just one paragraph, I do not receive this error. I can also paste other source material and it will work as expected.

I have documented this using multiple attachments, so hopefully the attachments will help get to the bottom of the issue.

Attachments:

This is the text from the Word document

This is the text as it appears once pasted into the Paste as Plain Text box

This is the code that is being pasted, as per the Chrome inspector

Fri, 01/10/2014 - 22:01

ekazda

Joined: 15/04/2008

Posts: 33

Additional Attachments

Attachments:

Attachment	Size
Information on the object that causes the exception, via Chrome	96.71 KB
The actual exception	16.03 KB

Sat, 01/11/2014 - 10:47

(Reply to #2) #3

iwrconsultancy

Joined: 14/05/2013

Posts: 50

Anctually, even plain text

Not a clue what's throwing this exception, but have noticed that even pasting plain text from an ASCII editor breaks the styling of the parent container. Which, is weird since plaintext paste is basically a system function which 'just works' in most programs, you don't typically have to code anything to make it work. It should be exactly as if you were pressing keys.

I'm wondering if the issue is with CK, or with the way the browser itself (Firefox 23 in my case) handles pasting into an editable div. I guess that would be easy enough to check by creating a contenteditable div without CK loaded.

Since manual typing into existing text doesn't suffer this issue, a quick fix might be to write a small AutoIt routine that pokes the bytes from the paste buffer, directly into the page. That might solve your issue too.

Sat, 01/11/2014 - 12:14

alfonsoml