Disable "builtin" copy/paste/... contextmenu

[Darryl]

Is there a way to disable the builtin copy/paste context menu? Or even better, disable/remove items from the builtin copy/paste context menu?

I have an editor implementation where I only want to allow PastePlainText. However I cant seem to access this copy/paste context menu to disable the other paste options.

If I use <contextmenu forElement="*" /> in the toolsfile to create a custom contextmenu, will this override the table property context menu and the image property context menu?

Thanks in advance.

[Rumen]

Hello Darryl,

Here is the whole context menu configuration of RadEditor:

<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server">
  <ContextMenus>
    <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="IMG">
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="SetImageProperties" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="ImageMapDialog" />
    </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
    <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="TABLE">
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="ToggleTableBorder" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="SetTableProperties" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="DeleteTable" />
    </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
    <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="TD">
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="InsertRowAbove" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="InsertRowBelow" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="DeleteRow" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="InsertColumnLeft" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="InsertColumnRight" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="MergeColumns" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="MergeRows" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="SplitCell" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="DeleteCell" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="SetCellProperties" />
    </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
    <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="A">
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="SetLinkProperties" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="Unlink" />
    </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
    <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="BODY">
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="Cut" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="Copy" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="Paste" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="PasteFromWord" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="PastePlainText" />
      <telerik:EditorTool Name="PasteAsHtml" />
    </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
  </ContextMenus>
</telerik:RadEditor>

All you need to do is to delete the tags corresponding to the elements that you would like to remove. Of course you can add new tools.

Best regards,
Rumen
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[Darryl]

Thanks Rumen.

Your example uses the RadEditor, EditorContextMenu, and EditorTool server control tags. Can I do the same in the toolsfile.xml ?

[Darryl]

Rumen, I figured it out.

I inserted your example into ToolsFile.xml and changed element and attribute names to those used in ToolsFile.xml.

Thanks for your help.

[Rumen]

Hello Darryl,

Yes, of course. The syntax is as follows:

  <contextMenus>
    <contextMenu forElement="BODY">
      <tool name="JustifyLeft" />
      <tool name="JustifyCenter" />
      <tool name="JustifyRight" />
      <tool name="JustifyFull" />
    </contextMenu>
    <contextMenu forElement="IMG">
      <tool name="Cut" />
      <tool name="Copy" />
      <tool name="Paste" />
    </contextMenu>
    <contextMenu forElement="A">
    </contextMenu>
  </contextMenus>


Best regards,
Rumen
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