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We were able to do this in YUI2. I had a plug-in I downloaded that attached to different events. For IE, it would attach to onbeforepaste for instance. It then inserted a fake node and focused to make sure the text ended up in that fake node.

I'm actually trying to get it to work again but can only successfully do it on FF for all markup. In Safari and IE, when the markup gets crazy, it only strips the first few images and whatnot.

I basically now run a line like this:



The pasted text then goes into that container. I get the reference to it and then do a lot of regex replacing. Some is pasted from YUI2's function, some from the plug-in, and some additional stuff I added in.

Dav, do you have any idea why it would work flawlessly in FF but then cut out halfway for "harder" markup in the other browsers? I tried with text from Facebook and CNN. It appears to really hate if an input field is pasted in.

Okay this is interesting. If I paste the "simple" text in, Cleaner's HTML console.logs perfectly. When I paste two tweets in, it console logs as blank and I can see the full HTML in the editor. You can clearly see I've had quirky issues in past with what is in cleaner so I'm going to play with that some. Let me know if this jogs your memory some. I'll keep you posted on any solution I find so other users can take advantage too

Oh boy. It looks like Firefox fixes invalid HTML on paste. If I paste the same thing everytime into Chrome, I get a small amount of markup. If I then do this bad string for cleaner:

<div id="Cleaner"><div>_</div>

It actually console logs the whole block.

Working with Copy Paste is a nightmare. Just working with Ctrl+A/C is not enough. What about Macs? What about right clicking? What about Edit > Copy menu interactions?

There are tons of things there. The other issue, is that some OSes clipboards are limited or special. They tend to change the content on the fly depending on where it's being pasted. For example. Copy some rich markup, then paste that into a textarea. The markup will go away and you will get plain text. But pasting that into something like Word, you will get rich markup.

The clipboard is intentionally hard to work with due to the massive security implications that it exposes. For example, what if you went to your banking site and copied your current bank info to your clipboard. Then visited my site and i read your clipboard. I now have access to that data. So they limited it and added a DOMPaste event (which Editor tries to fix a little). You should be able to listen to the "dom:paste" event on the Editor instance to be notified when a paste occurred.

When, and if, I decide to write a clipboard module for Editor, it will likely be a toolbar button that loads another iframe into a modal dialog. They paste into that, then I clean and inject the content where the cursor was positioned. That's about the most reliable way to deal with it.

dom:paste works in FF but not Chrome still. I tried dom:beforepaste for kicks, not knowing if you did that or not, and I'm guessing you didn't. You are so correct about nightmares