Not answered Pasting From Word in Firefox 3 Doesn't Remove Meta/Style Tags

I'm using Firefox 3 and whenever I paste from Word 2003 and attempt to do the special Paste From Word process it doesn't remove a lot of stuff.

Below are my two examples.

The first one is when I paste from Word without doing the "Paste From Word" process just to show what the original paste contained.

The second one shows what I get when I do the "Paste From Word" process and everything that it leaves.

Without "Paste From Word":

With "Paste From Word":

Hi Addams,

Thank you for reporting this problem.

We are aware of it and we are currently working on it. The problem is due to that Firefox 3.0 is presenting itself to MS Word as a XML client and the content pasted in the editor has new format different to this one pasted in Firefox 2.0. That is why the regular expressions used by the editor's Paste From Word filters are not stripping the new MS Word XML formatting.

We will do our best to fix the problem until the official Q3 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX.

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

Hi-

For some reason, we're suddenly getting a huge number of support calls about problems with pasting from Word.  Until there's a fix, is there a good workaround for this which will somehow force something to be pasted as unformatted text?

Thanks,

-Mike

Hi Mike,

What you can do is to override the Paste command with this code and run your own script for example fire the PastePlainText dialog in Firefox

<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1"></telerik:radeditor>
<script type="text/javascript">
var oldFunction = Telerik.Web.UI.Editor.CommandList["Paste"]; //save the original Paste function
Telerik.Web.UI.Editor.CommandList["Paste"] = function(commandName, editor, args)
{     
      if (!document.all)
      {
        editor.fire("PastePlainText");
      }
      else
      {
        oldFunction(commandName, editor, args);
      }
};
</script>

Greetings,
Rumen
the Telerik team

hi, has there been any update on this? i've been drowning in support calls and Q3 is out, but it doesn't appear that Editor is any different from the copy i have. "paste plain text" isn't actually an option for us, since the formatting from word needs to be held onto.

a problem that is also appearing it the one mentioned here:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet/editor/conditional-comments.aspx

does this remain the best solution or is this something that can be taken care of by the Editor itself?

thanks,

matt

Hello Matt Murphy,

Please, note that Firefox 3 now offers an onpaste property and we were able to implement the StripFormattingOnPaste property to work under Firefox in the latest version of RadEditor.

Firefox 3.0 is presenting itself to MS Word as a XML client and the paste content has new formatting different from this one pasted by Word to Firefox 2.0. In addition MS Word 2007 formatting is stored inside a single <style> tag which contains different mso attributes and classes. That is why if we strip the <style> tag then the content will be pasted as plain text which is the same as StripFormattingOnPaste="All".

That is why we decided to not strip the <style> tag and keep the mso formatting when the StripFormattingOnPaste property is set to MSWordRemoveAll.

Yes, the solution provided by Todd is the best option for the time being regarding the problem described in the forum thread http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet/editor/conditional-comments.aspx.

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

i wanted to put a solution out there for anyone who ran across the same problem. i got client-side filters from a couple different places and put them together into a solution that got rid of all the nasty word garbage by doing the following thing:

                        <script language="javascript">

                                    function StripWord()

                                    {

                                                oTool = new Object();

                                                var editor = <%= editor1.ClientID %>;

                                                oTool.GetSelectedValue = function() { return "WORD_ALL"; }

                                                editor.Fire("FormatStripper", oTool);

                                               

                                                // the internal word stripper was not nearly enough after the release of

                                                // firefox 3.0. this stuff also needed to happen.

                                                var html = editor.GetHtml();

 

                                                // Remove meta/link tags

                                                html = html.replace(/<(META|LINK)[^>]*>\s*/gi, '' ) ;

                                                // Remove style tags

                                                html = html.replace( /<STYLE[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/STYLE[^>]*>/gi, '' ) ;

 

                                                // get rid of <o:p></o:p> nonsense

                                                html = html.replace(/<o:p>[\s\S]*?<\/o:p>/g, '&nbsp;') ;

 

                                                 // remove < ! - -[if gte mso 9]> stuff

                                                html = html.replace(/<(!--)([\s\S]*?)(--)>/gi, '');

                                                editor.SetHtml(html);

                                    }

 

                        </script>

i attached that to my onsubmit and it appears to be taking care of the problem. i hope that helps anyone else in the same boat.

matt

Hi Matt,

Thank you for sharing your solution with the community. Your Telerik points were updated.

On a side note, I want to add that, as opposed to RadEditor Classic, the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX  features this functionality built-in - so my suggestion is for users who still use the old editor to consider moving to the new one.

Sincerely yours,
Tervel
the Telerik team