stripping style from pasted text...

[Jim Ault]

Wouldn't the following work for you?

> on pasteKey
>     if the clipboard is "text" then
get the clipboardData["text"]
 set the clipboardData to it
>     end if
>     paste
> end pasteKey


Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 11/7/07 8:45 AM, "Andre Garzia" <andre at andregarzia.com> 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