Preventing HTML Conversion

Having issue with FCK Editor converting HTML tags into their entities. I need to disable this feature, or modify it to prevent specific HTML tags from being converted. Currently when a user pastes a URL or image tag from another location, the < and > are converted and then the links and images do not work. I have tried changing the settings for ProcessHTMLEntities and ForcePasteAsPlainText without success. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to work?

Thanks much!

--ScareCrowe

Fri, 12/02/2005 - 09:24

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Preventing HTML Conversion

If you are pasting a text that is "<a href....>link</a>", and you want it to work as an html link, you need to do it in source mode, or copy the text to the clipboard as HTML (that's the problem of where are you copying from).

You could also write a plugin that gets the clipboard content (it will only work in IE, for Firefox you'll need to open a window) and then insert that content using FCK.InsertHtml

Fri, 12/02/2005 - 10:50

scarecrowe

Joined: 02/12/2005

Posts: 2

RE: Preventing HTML Conversion

Yes that did the trick! However, I am using this editor because the users are not PC savvy, and I am worried this will confuse them even more. Right now, instead of the image upload ability that is built-in to FCK, I created a form that will allow user to select an image and upload it, once done it will spit out the code they need to copy and paste into the editor, and even this is giving them trouble. (I cannot do the upload with FCK, because the admin panel is not hosted on same server as the site(s)).

I commented out the lines:
text = text.replace(/</g, "<") ;
text = text.replace(/>/g, ">") ;
in the fckeditor.js file, but even this did not work. I would much rather disable the character encoding feature altogether, and handle any conversions with my own scripts. Is it possible to completely disable the HTML Entities conversion?

Thanks,

--ScareCrowe

Fri, 12/02/2005 - 12:52

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Preventing HTML Conversion

You must remember that it's the browser itself the one that does escape < and > when you paste TEXT, if it wouldn't do it just imagine the mess whenever a user wanted to add those signs and automatically they became html tags!!!

You could try to catch the onpaste event of FCKeditor and then do an InsertHtml of the text, but for me the best solution would be to either change the location of the admin so the users can take direct advantage of the built in file manager or modify your file manager so it works cross-server and it's linked to the dialogs of the editor and this way they don't have to copy text in one place and paste it in another.