Chat and textarea formatting

[harrison at all-auctions.com]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the better example code.

When I copy colored text or bold faced text
from TextEdit and pasted it into the box it
doesn’t carry over.

Of course if I copy the one sample line you
provided that copies fine and renders fine.

I also tried creating some text with bold
and colored text using LibreOffice Write.
It copied and pasted just fine.  The
rendering was correct but it put in a
little more space between the lines
for some reason.  Perhaps I was
using a strange font or something.

The apostrophe problem went away too.

I will have to do some more research with this.
I’m not sure I can tell my users to all use
LibreOffice Write when composing messages.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Rick



> On Feb 15, 2023, at 1:46 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> What is the "junk" you're seeing for apostrophes? Could it be the Unicode number or character entity?
> 
> RE lost styles, like bold and color, are those rendered in the editable field before obtaining the innerHTML?
> 
> I find that a lot of this boils down to the Clipboard more than a browser being able to know what it's rendering.
> 
> If you can see it, it should be in the innerHTML.
> 
> But sometimes copying styled text may not carry all information over in the Clipboard.  What you see when pasting will show you what came over in an HTML-renderable way.
> 
> Below is a new page with two new output fields: the first is a textArea showing the raw HTML, the second shows the var contents rendered.
> 
> I also included some sample text up top, and did some stylings inline with others using CSS.  On this page both carry over well, because this page includes the CSS classes needed for referenced rendering.
> 
> For thorough testing you'll want to also make some styled text in another program, like a word processor, and paste that in to see what happens.
> 
> When I do that here using styled text made in LibreOffice Write everything shown in the paste field is accurately rendered in the final output field.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems