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Stop editor accepting Word formatting

Asked 22 Mar 2013 10:49:44
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22 Mar 2013 10:49:44 Tim Pollard posted:
I have hit another problem trying to make AhTMLEd3 fit for purpose. It seems if you paste in from Word it accepts all Word's formatting, so matter how uncompliant it is.

That's hopeless! If my user has written in an odd font, the editor happily uses it. Net result, my pages now look sh-t! If my contributor uses a different font size, it uses that too.

There doesn't seem to be any way to turn this idiotic 'feature' off? I Just want it to paste in plain text. If it can't do that, then it's useless.

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Replied 22 Mar 2013 11:50:05
22 Mar 2013 11:50:05 Vulcho Vulev replied:
Hello Tim.

When you are pasting from word the editor removes invalid html markup and every valid styling remains.


Regards:Vulcho.

Replied 22 Mar 2013 12:17:38
22 Mar 2013 12:17:38 Tim Pollard replied:
Vulcho

So at the moment it is worse than useless, because my users can totally f--k up the styling of my site!

I don't think you should be selling this extension - it is not ready for release yet, in my opinion.

Can I get my money back?
Replied 22 Mar 2013 13:04:25
22 Mar 2013 13:04:25 Teodor Kuduschiev replied:
Hello,

The word cleaning is automatically done when you paste word formatted text in the editor. The editor scans the text and removes any NON-valid HTML.
The remove formatting button removes any formatting from the selected text.
Replied 24 Mar 2013 11:56:32
24 Mar 2013 11:56:32 Tim Pollard replied:
Teodor

Yes, I understand that. My point is that webmasters want this extension to make it easy for non-technical users to be given simple formatting controls which they can use to add limited emphasis but without destroying general site formatting.

I can understand why, in some organisations, you might want to copy word formatting in verbatim, but in most it simply guarantees your page formatting will be destroyed. The fact that it is valid is irrelevant. It doesn't substitute odd fonts for universally valid ones, for example. And the fact that a user can remove formatting afterwards doesn't really help. Most of my users have no clue what they are doing and the more complex you make any process the less likely they will use it.

You absolutely must implement the option in the extension to strip all incoming formatting, otherwise it is just dangerous.

At the moment I have to remove this extension from my site - you haven't answered my question? Can I get my money back, as this product is no use to me.
Replied 27 Mar 2013 23:29:20
27 Mar 2013 23:29:20 Mark Lynch replied:
Again, I agree with Tim. This function NEEDS to be included in an updated version ASAP

Mark

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