Feature suggestion: RRTE — paste from Word button (remove unnecessary formatting)

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Hi, Nik!

I'd like to propose a little improvement to RRTE: can You add a button
with «Clear formatting» functionality?
I mean — not just make a plain text from pasted, but clean that text
from MS Word formatting, inline styles and font definitions etc.

I think it would be useful...

Tried to bind a function that cleans pasted HTML to Ctrl+V key
combination, but without success.
Console gives me an error: «TypeError: Result of expression
'b.find' [undefined] is not a function.» in right.js at line 7.

This error shows up when i press assigned key-combo.

I can clean pasted text and replace content of Rte textarea manually
in console though, without attaching a function to key kombination.

If this helps — this is my function, that i use to strip unnecessary
formatting:

function cleanHTML(str) {
str = str.replace(/<o:p>\s*<\/o:p>/g, "") ;
str = str.replace(/<o:p>.*?<\/o:p>/g, "&nbsp;") ;
str = str.replace( /\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;"]+;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*;/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*;/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-ALIGN: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*FONT-VARIANT: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*tab-stops:[^;"]*;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*tab-stops:[^"]*/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*face="[^"]*"/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*face=[^ >]*/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*FONT-FAMILY:[^;"]*;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) class=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ;
str = str.replace( /<(\w[^>]*) style="([^\"]*)"([^>]*)/gi, "<
$1$3" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*style="\s*"/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*>\s*&nbsp;\s*<\/SPAN>/gi,
'&nbsp;' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*><\/SPAN>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) lang=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*>(.*?)<\/SPAN>/gi, '$1' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<FONT\s*>(.*?)<\/FONT>/gi, '$1' ) ;
str = str.replace(/<\\?\?xml[^>]*>/gi, "") ;
str = str.replace(/<\/?\w+:[^>]*>/gi, "") ;
//str = str.replace( /<H\d>\s*<\/H\d>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H1([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H2([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H3([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H4([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H5([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<H6([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<\/H\d>/gi, '<br>' ) ; //remove this to take
out breaks where Heading tags were
//str = str.replace( /<(U|I|STRIKE)>&nbsp;<\/\1>/g, '&nbsp;' ) ;
//str = str.replace( /<(B|b)>&nbsp;<\/\b|B>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
//some RegEx code for the picky browsers
var re = new RegExp("(<P)([^>]*>.*?)(<\/P>)","gi") ;
str = str.replace( re, "<div$2</div>" ) ;
var re2 = new RegExp("(<font|<FONT)([^*>]*>.*?)(<\/FONT>|<\/
font>)","gi") ;
str = str.replace( re2, "<div$2</div>") ;
str = str.replace( /size|SIZE = ([\d]{1})/g, '' ) ;

return str ;
}

I know that clipboard access is limited in browsers, but it can be
done via dialog I think (as it's done with the image insert button)...

And one more thing: in Safari 5.0.5 (OS X 10.5.8) Copy, Cut and Paste
buttons are inactive all the time.
In FF and Opera those buttons are active, as supposed to, but they
doesn't work. Seems like permissions issue.


Thanks,
Alex

[Nikolay Nemshilov]

Hi Alex,

I'm not sure it will be possible to hijack Ctrl+V and read stuff directly from the clipboard, but it could be probably done with a separated button. I'll check it out a bit later.

btw, I don't have MSW, could you collect me a bunch of typical data? just some strings, maybe in a zip or something

and one more. Why do you use this crazy list of regular expressions? won't a simple /<[^>]+>/, '' do the trick?

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Hi Nik,

Thanks for your reply.

> I'm not sure it will be possible to hijack Ctrl+V and read stuff directly from the clipboard, but it could be probably done with a separated button. I'll check it out a bit later.

I thought so. And i think that a separate button will be the best
solution possible.

> btw, I don't have MSW, could you collect me a bunch of typical data? just some strings, maybe in a zip or something

My primary OS is Mac OS X Leo. ;)
But I'll try it at work.

> and one more. Why do you use this crazy list of regular expressions? won't a simple /<[^>]+>/, '' do the trick?

I just found these regexps a while ago, and as it not taking a lot of
space their amount is irrelevant for me.
As I said before — I'll do try to collect some common MS-Word internal
data, that it inserts to clipboard upon copying.