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[SOLVED] Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:26 pm
by volcanoboy
Hi,
I've just encountered a problem i've never had before. On my latest webproject using CMS Made Simple 1.4.1 "Spring Garden", no modules. Nothing fancy at all.
Whenever i try to paste something into the Tiny MCE window absolutely all my formating just disappear. It can be only a single word and my whole content block just turns into a giant textblock with absolutely no formating.
...anyone else had this problem?
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:44 am
by volcanoboy
any ideas what can be happening or how to solve it?
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:53 am
by volcanoboy
Still haven't managed to fix this problem. Should i reinstall? upgrade?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated

Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:59 am
by RonnyK
What kind of lines are you pasting, is there code or special character in the text?
Ronny
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:09 am
by volcanoboy
if i paste into the html window it's not a problem.
Example:
I have 3 paragraphs with text. All have bold Heading:
Paragraph 1
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.
Paragraph 2
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.
Paragraph 3
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.
If forexample i copy the word Lorem and paste it anywhere in the Tiny MCE window...I'm left with this:
Paragraph 1Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.Paragraph 2Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.Paragraph 3Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet purus. In id quam. Sed vestibulum lectus id neque. Sed malesuada fringilla felis. Cras ultricies. Phasellus at libero. Pellentesque libero tellus, porta ut, dignissim sit amet, molestie non, tortor. Praesent auctor, risus a eleifend mattis, mi nisl fermentum tellus, non vehicula eros neque ut pede. Morbi cursus luctus turpis.
I can not undo this change either...i have to cancel and go back and do it again manually..
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:12 pm
by volcanoboy
Hi,
I've now tested this on pretty much all the cmsms sites i've done the last year. About 10 alltogether. All the older versions works fine. But every site using 1.4.1 "Spring Garden" have this problem. All my sites are hosted at the same host and all of them are on the same server.
Don't know if it matters but i'm on a mac running OSX 10.4. using Firefox 3.0 or Safari for updates.
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:41 pm
by DAHEATH
I also have this problem. It started after I upgraded to 1.4.1 from 1.2.5 .
Any paste will destroy all formatting.
Mac OS-X 10.5.5
Firefox 3.0.1
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:10 am
by jack4ya
I have problems with FireFox on Mac icw TinyMCE...
Highly annoying. But I'm not sure who to "blame"... Firefox, TinyMCE?
I switched to Camino for text editing...

Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:54 pm
by DAHEATH
Ok, I tested all the browsers I have on my Mac.
I tested by pasting a single line of text into existing content and looked for removal of formatting.
Native Mac Browsers
Safari 3.1.2 FAIL
Firefox 3.0.1 FAIL
Opera 9.5.2 WORKS
Camino 1.6.4 WORKS
Mac Parallels PC emulator running Windows 2000
IE 6.0.28 WORKS
Firefox 2.0.0.12 WORKS
So, there you have it. The two most popular browsers for Mac fail to work properly with the TinyMCE supplied with CMS Made Simple 1.4.1. However, version 1.2.x and Firefox for Mac got along fine.
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:09 am
by volcanoboy
well atleast it's a mac problem then. Thankfully most of our clients are PC users and i was afraid i was sending of buggy sites. I'll live with doing updates on Camino for those sites but sure hope this can get fixed in the next release.
Will go back to 1.2.x for my next site...
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:17 am
by alby
volcanoboy wrote:
Will go back to 1.2.x for my next site...
Maybe it's not necessary.
In 1.3+ and 1.4+ Tiny module exit with simplepaste plugin that has a few problems.
I think that new Tiny release (2.4.7) have already paste plugin (same of CMSMS 1.2+)
Alby
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:48 am
by volcanoboy
It looks like my TinyMCE is version 2.4.5. When I look at the TinyMCEsite their version is now 3.2.0.1.
Can i just replace my current version with this one?
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:04 am
by jack4ya
Updated to 2.4.7...
It works again... well FF on Mac. Yay!
Re: Formating disappear when pasting content
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:26 am
by volcanoboy
Yup. The 2.4.7 version works like it should. So to anyone with the same problem, install the 2.4.7 version found here:
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/frs/downlo ... -2.4.7.zip
Problem solved
