Composer Strip HTML
By Johnny on Friday, 16 December 2016
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Hi,

When I copy a paragraph of text (from somewhere online) and paste it into a 'text' block, all paragraphs are removed and text is is one continuous sentence. I've tried 'paste as plain text', and Ctrl+V. Also tried various browsers. What's strange though is that if I paste the text into a table cell it works perfect?

Joomla 3.6.4
EB 5.0.41

Is this normal behavior of EasyBlog?

Thanks
I will log this issue into your issue tracker, we will see if we can include the fix in next release version.
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 21 January 2017 09:53
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Yes, it is a normal behavior to strip off those formatted text. Why? When you copy contents for instance from proprietary software like Microsoft Office, it contains very weird characters that cannot be parsed by normal HTML browsers. These proprietary codes are only read-able by Microsoft's tools.
Mark
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Friday, 16 December 2016 21:15
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Thanks Mark. I understand about the special characters Microsoft add however I'm copying from a website.

It's not so much the html characters being stripped but the paragraphs. They aren't stripped if I paste into a table though. Only a text block.
Johnny
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Friday, 16 December 2016 21:23
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The problem there is no way to detect if it contains proprietary codes from Microsoft or HTML elements. Proprietary tags from Microsoft uses the same html syntax as well just that it has very strange and odd attributes.
Mark
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Friday, 16 December 2016 21:25
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Thanks Mark, but it works when I paste into a table? Please see the following video I made here
Johnny
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Friday, 16 December 2016 21:59
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Looks like it could be a bug with the table block. It should also strip out formatted contents.
Mark
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Friday, 16 December 2016 22:06
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Just a friendly reminder about this bug I can post in in a different category if there is a 'bug' section?
Johnny
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Friday, 20 January 2017 18:04
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