pasting Word content into WYSWYG editor w/Firefox

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Last Post: January 22, 2009 (RSS)

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By Deborah - January 22, 2009 - edited: January 22, 2009

When I use Firefox, a separate "Paste from Word" dialog box pops up when I attempt to paste content into a WYSYWYG editor field. I went ahead and used the secondary dialog box, but after publishing, all of my entries have been appended with the following, appearing after opening <p> tag:

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document" />
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 9" />
<meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 9" />
<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" />
<style></style>

I'm using Firefox 3.01 and CMS Builder 1.23. I don't think I have any Firefox plugins that could be causing this, but I'm not sure. The dialog box does not appear in Internet Explorer and the WYSYWYG fields are generated correctly using IE.

The "remove formatting" tool does not eliminate the added content from the records I've entered.

Any suggestions, anyone?

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By Dave - January 22, 2009

Hi Deborah,

That's strange. Are you able to re-create that issue every time? Meaning, if you paste from word into the "Paste from Word" dialog and then click the "HTML" button it shows the Word meta tags? Or is it only when you save?

Which version of Word do you have? What we could try doing is upgrading the tinymce wysiwyg editor. A newer version might fix the problem.

Can you see if you can reproduce it with this demo?
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php

Let me know what happens.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

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By Deborah - January 22, 2009 - edited: January 22, 2009

Hi, Dave.

Thanks to your reply, I was able to determine the cause. It was entirely my fault [blush]...

I had edited the wysywig.php file in TinyMCE, removing the buttons that I did not want to have visible in the editor. It seems I removed the "pastetext" and "pasteword" buttons. I have added them back and the records are now posting correctly.

Sorry for the false alarm! And thanks for pointing me to the TinyMCE demo. That was very helpful.

Deborah

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By Dave - January 22, 2009

Thanks for posting back. Glad to hear it's working now! :)

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com