That’s it, the editor should now strip the formatting out of pasted text. Var cleanPaste = new CleanPaste(myEditor)

In the Javascript where you create your Yahoo Editor object, create an instance of the CleanPaste object, passing in the editor as the parameter:.Include the script in your page using the following code:Įnsure the src attribute points to the directory where the CleanPaste.js script is located.Place the CleanPaste.js file somewhere in your project.Ensure you’ve already installed the YUI components & created a Yahoo Editor on your page.To use the CleanPaste script, follow these steps: Now, unfortunately no such feature exists in the YUI Editor, and Googling around just led to dead ends, so I was left to build my own.įor information on what’s supported, please read the notes on CodePlex, as I will keep this updated as I make bug fixes etc. So, the solution for us was to try and strip out all of the formatting when somebody pastes stuff into the Editor, resulting in nice clean HTML that plays well with the YUI Editor formatting functions. This almost always wreaks havoc if the user subsequently tries to change text styles in the editor, as the underlying HTML is a total mess. Most of the time for us, the “other app” is Microsoft Word, which does a particularly heinous job of generating HTML from a formatted document. I’ve been using the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) in my web app, and one particularly cool component is the YUI Rich Text Editor: its cross-browser compatible, fully extensible, and best of all it’s free :)įor all its greatness, one thing I’ve struggled with is that if you copy & paste stuff from another app into the YUI Editor, all of the original formatting is maintained.

Rtf viewer strip formatting