Subj : Re: stripping html from pasted/dropped text
To   : Travis Raybold
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon May 24 2004 11:49 am

Travis Raybold wrote:
>  im trying to get any text pasted or dropped into an editable IFRAME to be
> straight text, rather than html. i believe the easiest way would be to force
> the dataFlavor to text/unicode, but i cant find any way to set that in
> javascript.
> 
> alternatively, ill need to custom write some code to parse out all html
> tags. but even then, is there a way to modify pasted text as it is being
> pasted? in ie i can view and modify the clipboard (not sure i like that
> ability!) but mozilla (quite rightly) does not allow that by default. im
> actually having trouble getting mozilla to even report a paste event (can
> use keypress, but that can miss file/edit/paste, etc).
> 
> any thoughts?
> 
> thanks in advance!

Wrong newsgroup; see headers.

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