stripping style from pasted text...

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Wed Nov 7 12:35:58 EST 2007


Hi Andre,

Does this not work?

-- assumes that some styled text has been copied to clipboard
on mouseUp -- button script
  put the clipboarddata["text"] into fld 2
end mouseUp

In a simple test here, it worked. Maybe there's more to it than I grasp. 
Or maybe it's not as hard as you think! ;o)

Phil Davis



Andre Garzia wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> newbie question here. I have many fields where the user can paste
> text. The problem is, I don't want the text to be styled, I want to
> paste as plain text. I've added this to a frontscript:
>
> on pasteKey
>     if the clipboard is "text" then
>         ## Get rid of text styles...
>         set the clipboardData["html"] to empty
>         set the clipboardData["rtf"] to empty
>     end if
>     paste
> end pasteKey
>
> but so far the text still paste with styles... any clue out there? The
> field can contain styles but not the pasted text because, I want to
> control how styles are applied to get rid of silly stuff such as
> <font> from appearing in my htmltext properties.
>
> TIA
> Andre
>
>   



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