Hi,

 

The Editor1.PlainTextWithLineFeeds returns line feeds as

 

<br>&nbsp;

 

together with a trailing space character. This is causing problems when trying to use Cute Editor to lay out plain text documents such as for email systems. The idea of plain text with a line feed is great, but why does it have to have '&nbsp;' together with a trailing space?

 

The line feeds property ought to just deliver either <br> on it's own, or, because it IS meant to be plain text, simply a newline, thus: \n

 

Can you please help with this? At the end of the day, I just want users to be able to lay out a document in plain text format for email systems, which means stripping the body of HTML and swapping new lines with '\n'.

 

Many thanks

Gerardicus

string plainText= Editor1.PlainTextWithLinefeeds;

 

plainText = plainText.Replace("<br>","\n");

 

 

 

 

Hi Adam,

 

thanks for the reply. In the mean time, I've used the following to remove any extra html not wanted:

 

I did some testing to see just what was returned using PlainTextWithLineFeeds and found that the above seems to get rid of all unwanted html and leave only '\r\n' for line feeds.

 

Of course, when I load the body from the database, for editing in Cute, I need to replace all '\r\n' with '<br>' again so that is shows properly in Cute.

 

Regards

Gerardicus

Actually,

 

the best idea would be to have a plain old multi-line text box replace the HTML editor window for plain text editing, but still enabling some of the editor features such as Code Snippets to work with the plain text box. Then no conversion of text would have to take place at all.

 

Gerardicus

I have been using this fix and very happy with it.

The thing is, we deal with foreign text as well and I wonder about translating all the escaped chars back to unicode chars. So I am working on this one to see if I can get anywhere.

Use the following code:

 

// get the editor client ID
var editor1=document.getElementById('<%=Editor1.ClientID%>');

 

var editdoc=editor1.GetDocument();

alert(innerText(editdoc.body));

function innerText(elm){ if(document.all) { return elm.innerText; } else { return elm.textContent; } }

Thanks Adam.  That gives me exactly what I want.