Paste as plain text workaround

I agree with usability being poor in this case. The "Enter Plaintext" window popping up automatically forces the user to disable his/her popup blocker and/or paste the text for the second time. Text should just be pasted as plaintext immediately without a popup.

I just learned that it's mainly a FireFox problem. IE doesn't force said popup. I searched this forum and I got the impression that the FCKEditor developers want to fix more serious bugs before addressing this usability issue.

Could the developers chime in and advise when the Firefox popup can be stopped?

BTW I agree the FCKEditor is a great tool. To date nothing else comes close.

Thanks,
Mark

Ironically, I'm finding its working the exact opposite way around -in IE I get a popup and in Firefox I don't! My settings are:

FCKConfig.AutoDetectPasteFromWord = true;
FCKConfig.CleanWordKeepsStructure = false;
FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText = false;

I too would prefer not to have the popup at all - just have it strip out all the <font>, <span>, etc. leaving me with only the tags that I am allowing in my own customised toolbar, namely 'Bold','Italic','Underline','UnorderedList'.

I notice also that the FCKConfig.CleanWordKeepsStructure tends to put in <div></div> for empty paragraphs whereas I'd prefer it to use the same setting as FCKConfig.EnterMode - namely just a <br />

Chris.

Hi!

I want to copy Text (from Word or other Sources like Browser etc.) in the FCKeditor as plain Text.

my config:
FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText = true ;
...
FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["mytoolbar"] = [
['Source','-','Bold','Italic','Underline','-','JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight', 'FontFormat'],
'/',
['Cut','Copy','Paste','RemoveFormat','-','Undo','Redo','-','OrderedList','UnorderedList','Outdent','Indent','-','Subscript','Superscript','-','Link','Unlink'],
'/',
['Table','Blockquote','SpecialChar','About']
] ;
...
FCKConfig.Keystrokes = [
[ CTRL + 65 /*A*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 67 /*C*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 70 /*F*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 83 /*S*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 84 /*T*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 88 /*X*/, true ],
[ CTRL + 86 /*V*/, 'Paste' ],
[ CTRL + 45 /*INS*/, true ],
...

But always when i want to paste something with Crtl-V a popup appears. How can i disable this popup and just paste like in other programms?
Have i something wrong in my config oder how can i disable this popup? I thougt it was posible in a earlyer version.

I would like that feature too

The root of the problem is the browser here. While IE offers ways to retrieve the clipboard data with JavaScript, Firefox don't. This is a security "feature" into the browser (like they call it)... a limitation for me.

So, as we can't play with the clipboard, the only option we have is showing a dialog with a textarea. I'm not happy with that also, but we can't workaround this problem.

fredck wrote:The root of the problem is the browser here. While IE offers ways to retrieve the clipboard data with JavaScript, Firefox don't. This is a security "feature" into the browser (like they call it)... a limitation for me.

fredck wrote:The root of the problem is the browser here. While IE offers ways to retrieve the clipboard data with JavaScript, Firefox don't. This is a security "feature" into the browser (like they call it)... a limitation for me.

So, as we can't play with the clipboard, the only option we have is showing a dialog with a textarea. I'm not happy with that also, but we can't workaround this problem.

That's the idea in http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1427
It still needs someone to code it.