Implementing a better paste cleanup?

[johnpitcairn]

I'm transitioning a client's Drupal site from widgEditor to WYMedit/wysiwyg, and now have things mostly how I want them. Drupal throws in a few extra curves to negotiate if you want to customize the editor without resorting to hacking the source.

But getting clean input on paste is a problem, because editors WILL just paste directly into the editor rather than using "paste from word". They won't notice the awful result (really!). There's a preference in the Drupal wysiwyg prefs for WYMeditor that should force "normal" paste to behave like "paste from word", but this doesn't appear to work reliably.

I have a set of regexp functions I was using in widgEditor which aggressively strip out all tags and other junk I don't want. I would like to look into adding those as an "auto-cleanup" plugin for WYMeditor that tries to detect a paste then processes the result. Where should I be looking to hook this in?

Note I don't especially care if paste-detect won't work in Firefox, I can specify that IE or Safari must be used to edit.

[johnpitcairn]

Heh. The Drupal preference to force cleanup on a direct paste does work ... at least it does in IE Windows. I guess it's detecting Control-V and Shift-insert?

While I'm OK with requiring IE my client to edit, it might be nice to extend paste-detection to detect Command-V for Mac users ... possible?

[mantis]

An option where one could set the default behaviour of the editor when dealing with pasted content would be nice. If you paste content into the editor it either strips out unwanted code automatically or it doesn't.

[mr_lundis]

Hello!
Take a look at what we've said in this discussion. You cold try to insert your clean up regexs before/after the update or html methods and then post whatever works best here as a plugin.

Cheers!

[johnpitcairn]

I'll be taking another look at this in the next few days, thanks.

Any comments about paste-detection for Mac users?

[Folken Laëneck]

You could force the paste dialog to open with just a small plugin like this one I wrote