Hey,

I'm going to be doing a bit of a redesign on one of my websites, and the first thing on my list is to get rid of the crappy TinyMCE text editor I'm using (when employers post jobs on staff.ie.)

My problem with it is when people copy and paste from a (for example) Word document the font colour and face is kept. This is making some of the job postings look a bit weird.

Also, TinyMCE handles newlines very strangely...

Can any of you recommend something? Being able to handle copy + paste, bullet points and being able to force my own font colour and face are vital. Something simple rather than complicated...

Thanks a million.

Why don't you create a standard form with the ability for posters to add additional fields when required?

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Thanks for the reply.

I'm not totally sure what you mean though... You mean a normal textarea field? Or something else...?

No and yes. I mean create a normal form with all the required fields and format them according to how you want it to be displayed.

You can also then create something like an "Additional Information" plain text field. Stiripslashes and all that and you will have a nicely formatted submission.

Dealing with word pastes is a nightmare.

I found a few text editors on sourceforge before. I'm not 100% sure which search terms I used or even the names of the editors I found. Hope this search helps though.

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FCKEditor is what I use for all of my RTF needs: FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet

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FK editor I use as well. It has an option for cpying from word to remove all the MsW mark up.

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I worked on an admin system for a site quite similar to your own site and used tinymce as the editor for them posting jobs. Came across the exact problem you are facing and did the research on the different editors. I finalised on tinymce and to combat the problem I installed some mod or addon that allowed only certain html tags and would automatically strip out the head wrecking word code.

See the Cleanup/Output section in this link:

TinyMCE:Configuration - Moxiecode Documentation Wiki

Also see this plugin for auto removing ms word crap code automatically upon paste:

TinyMCE:Plugins/paste - Moxiecode Documentation Wiki

You can also use a regular expression to remove unwanted html tags from your code, e.g.

regexp remove html tags - Google Search
4GuysFromRolla.com - Removing All HTML Tags from a String Using Regular Expressions

It'll be probably easier to do this then add a new editor cause most editors support the word paste!

Rgds,

Dave

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Yes, FCKEditor is pretty good alright

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A resourse you may find useful is :

http://www.cmsreview.com/WYSIWYG/Ope...directory.html