Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Bryant
Ben, In your experience, have you found any reason not to do this for every insert and update? Steve >Les, > >What I do is at the top of every page processing, I loop through the FORM >scope to strip out special MS word characters, or replace them. Soemthing >like this (part of my EscapeForm()

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-29 Thread dave
" Bashing Microsoft is so fun! I doubt I'll ever grow tired of it. " Amen brotha! ~Dave the disruptor~ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241720 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/thread

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-29 Thread Denny Valliant
On 5/28/06, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Denny Valliant wrote: > > One of the nice features of FCKEditor is the "paste from Word", > > I forgot to mention - they're copying and pasting from a FileMaker Pro > database on a Mac. Gawd only knows where the original material came from > be

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread Peter Tilbrook
WOT but I noticed Flex 2 beta 3 has a fairly good "rich text editor" that could probably do with an update like image uploading for starters. While CFMX7 flash forms are useful - the Flex/CF support will rock my world. PT www.actcfug.com ~

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread Les Mizzell
Denny Valliant wrote: > One of the nice features of FCKEditor is the "paste from Word", I forgot to mention - they're copying and pasting from a FileMaker Pro database on a Mac. Gawd only knows where the original material came from before it was in Filemaker... I keep telling them - it's two d

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread Les Mizzell
Denny Valliant wrote: > One of the nice features of FCKEditor is the "paste from Word", which > seems to work pretty good. I use FCKEditor on a few sites, and TinyMCE (?is that correct?) on a few others. I've thought about using it for the textarea in question - but it does seem like overkill f

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread dave
r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea I love that "Paste from word" feature - it will autaomtically strip out all that But i havent been able to figure out how come sometimes it wraps the co

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread Mike Kear
I love that "Paste from word" feature - it will autaomtically strip out all that tags, other times inAnd why sometimes it removes tags, other times it doesnt. Does anyone know what's going on there? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webwor

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-28 Thread Denny Valliant
One of the nice features of FCKEditor is the "paste from Word", which seems to work pretty good. I don't do it too often but it seems hunky- dory when I've tried it. I don't think the UTF-8 will work, but don't know for sure. :D Client has decided to cut 'n paste from various sources though, and

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-25 Thread Les Mizzell
dave wrote: > a few tags on cflib that do this but I have yet to find one that completely > work. > No good solution but not to do it, worse case show them how to paste it into > notepad first then into site. Heh - fat chance. This client is screaming bloody murder about the time it takes just

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-25 Thread dave
; Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea > they paste and save, it *might* look OK in their browser, but a direct > examination of the record shows the dreaded "little boxes" that come > from the MS Word version

RE: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-25 Thread Ben Nadel
- The 8000+ char values are MS Word quotes and apostrophes and dashes. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message----- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

Re: cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-25 Thread Les Mizzell
> they paste and save, it *might* look OK in their browser, but a direct > examination of the record shows the dreaded "little boxes" that come > from the MS Word version (amoung other things) of quotes... Whoop - this is a mySQL database, by the way. ~~

cfinsert and pasted crap in a textarea

2006-05-25 Thread Les Mizzell
Using cfinsert to add a record from an admin form. There's a text area for a description and as long as you type directly into it, no problem. You can put any darned thing in there you want. Client has decided to cut 'n paste from various sources though, and when they paste and save, it *might*