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Paste button doesn't insert text copied from Word in Internet Explorer

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 3.0
  • Fix Version/s: 3.1 M1, 2.7.2, 3.0.1
  • Component/s: WYSIWYG Editor
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Word
  • Difficulty:
    Easy
  • Similar issues:
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    XWIKI-4569Using "Import >Office Content" button in WYSIWYG, in IE7 it doesn't strip out XML tags
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  • copy text from an Word document (Microsoft's Word application must be used; you don't get the same effect when using OpenOffice)
  • click the Paste tool bar button
  • paste the text in the rich text area -> the text is correctly displayed
  • click the Insert button -> the dialog closes but the text is not inserted

Issue Links

is related to

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-4161 XML tags are displayed after copy&paste word-doc in office importer

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct and has been pushed to production. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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Marius Dumitru Florea added a comment -

It seems that the wrong namespace declaration is serialized even by the native innerHTML call. This causes some problems when the pasted text is taken from the rich text area. The solution is to remove all non-HTML elements from the pasted text before sending the HTML to the server for cleaning.

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Marius Dumitru Florea added a comment - It seems that the wrong namespace declaration is serialized even by the native innerHTML call. This causes some problems when the pasted text is taken from the rich text area. The solution is to remove all non-HTML elements from the pasted text before sending the HTML to the server for cleaning.

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  • Assignee:
    Marius Dumitru Florea
    Reporter:
    Marius Dumitru Florea
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