After spending countless hours searching for a solution, I am still puzzled by this problem.
My ultimate goal is to have two modes in my powerful TinyMCE editor:
- Allowing the pasting of HTML or Word/OpenOffice text with all styles and formatting attributes intact
- Enabling the paste plugin by default, while removing most of the HTML and maintaining simple formatting
I have achieved success in copying and pasting HTML or Word/OpenOffice text with styles preserved. Additionally, the paste plugin button is activated by default.
However, I am struggling to configure the paste plugin to allow specific HTML tags such as lists (ol, ul, li), line breaks (br), and basic formatting (b, i, u) when the paste button is clicked.
Despite my attempts to modify the paste_postprocess and paste_preprocess functions, I have not found a solution yet. The configuration of the valid_elements has also been unsuccessful.
Here are the crucial parts of my settings:
plugins : "paste,tabfocus,table,safari",
paste_auto_cleanup_on_paste : true,
paste_create_paragraphs: false,
paste_create_linebreaks : false,
paste_postprocess : function(pl, o) { },
paste_preprocess : function(pl, o) { },
paste_remove_spans:true,
paste_remove_styles:true,
paste_remove_styles_if_webkit:true,
paste_retain_style_properties:"none",
paste_strip_class_attributes:"all",
paste_text_sticky:true,
convert_urls : false,
entity_encoding : "raw",
valid_elements : "em/i,strong/b,ol,ul,li,br",
force_br_newlines : true,
force_p_newlines : false,
forced_root_block : false,
invalid_elements : "font",
setup : function(ed) {
ed.onInit.add(function(ed) {
ed.pasteAsPlainText = true; // select "paste" on startup
});
},
verify_html : false