Disable formatting

Jake Bunce

Jake Bunce

XenForo moderator
Staff member
#2
#2
There is a user preference for the rich editor:

http://xenforo.com/community/account/preferences

You can mass update the editor preference of all existing users by running this query:

Code: 
UPDATE xf_user_option
SET enable_rte = 0;
You can set the default prefs for new users here:

Admin CP -> Home -> Options -> User Registration -> Default Registration Values

But there is no option there for the editor.
 
igrec

igrec

Member
#3
#3
Hi, thank you but that would lead to simple text editor for all users. I just don't wanna formatting of the copied text. Cos it even saves the share button icons. And tons of unnecessary links and formatting.

Have a look

janie_aire (
janie_aire) wrote in
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2013-05-11 13:45:00
meta: The Secret of Alchemy -- Crimson Horror

Originally posted by
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Doctor Who meta: The Crimson Horror

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igrec

igrec

Member
#5
#5
EQnoble said:
Just download notepad++, paste what you copied in there....and then copy that and paste it in the post.
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You are joking me, right? I know how to get rid of formatting. But it's impossible to nail it itno the users' heads

in IPB I can put a line into the js of cke
Code: 
config.forcePasteAsPlainText = true;
And that will do the job.

Am I the only one with this kind of concern?
 
EQnoble

EQnoble

Well-known member
#6
#6
igrec said:
You are joking me, right? I know how to get rid of formatting. But it's impossible to nail it itno the users' heads

in IPB I can put a line into the js of cke
Code: 
config.forcePasteAsPlainText = true;
And that will do the job.

Am I the only one with this kind of concern?
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Not joking at all....how am I supposed to know that is what you mean...
Your question was....

Hi everyone, any solution for disabling formatting for copy-paste from m$ word and html?


What about when someone wants formatting included in a pastejob and what about people who already are wise enough to work around it when they have to...you now just increased the workload for people who do utilize it when they do want the formatting included when pasting from other sources.


Anyways, point was as soon as you specified MSword you made it about something not having to do with xenforo in my mind and that is how I answered you.

In answer to your last question no...I am not concerned. If you have to make a workaround for every tendency of every user of every forum you end up with crap. However if you really need it you can make a simple js function that runs when a user pastes text to do what you are looking for.

example...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2875027/clean-microsoft-word-pasted-text-using-javascript


Code: 
function cleanWordPaste( in_word_text ) {
var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
tmp.innerHTML = in_word_text;
var newString = tmp.textContent||tmp.innerText;
// this next piece converts line breaks into break tags
// and removes the seemingly endless crap code
newString  = newString.replace(/\n\n/g, "<br />").replace(/.*<!--.*-->/g,"");
// this next piece removes any break tags (up to 10) at beginning
for ( i=0; i<10; i++ ) {
  if ( newString.substr(0,6)=="<br />" ) {
  newString = newString.replace("<br />", "");
  }
}
return newString;
}
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I just find it unneeded in general and personally think this is not worth the time or bytes, just saying that I would be pissed off if I had to stop being able to utilize copy and paste in posts so that people who insist on using MSword can paste from documents formatted in hell.​
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Now that I think about it, you can just create a bbcode for people to use who insist on pasting from MSword which would strip all of the formatting.​
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I just don't see a need for it when anyone with a computer already has the tools on their local machine to make this not be an issue nor do I think that people who take the time to learn how things work should be punished (and have to spend more time when pasting text that is actually formatted in a way that makes sense) so that a smaller group of people can do what they do without learning anything.​
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Best of luck to you and no I am not joking about that either.​
 
igrec

igrec

Member
#8
#8
EQnoble said:
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I just find it unneeded in general and personally think this is not worth the time or bytes, just saying that I would be pissed off if I had to stop being able to utilize copy and paste in posts so that people who insist on using MSword can paste from documents formatted in hell.​
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Now that I think about it, you can just create a bbcode for people to use who insist on pasting from MSword which would strip all of the formatting.​
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I just don't see a need for it when anyone with a computer already has the tools on their local machine to make this not be an issue nor do I think that people who take the time to learn how things work should be punished (and have to spend more time when pasting text that is actually formatted in a way that makes sense) so that a smaller group of people can do what they do without learning anything.​
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Best of luck to you and no I am not joking about that either.​
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I wound ask it here if I didn't need it , right? What is really pissing me off is the fackt that users can copy and paste like this

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Pretty nice hun?
 
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