Having deployed our application using version 6.0 of the cuteditor control (ASP.NET), I have several users complaining that having pasted text from a web page, paragraphs are being stripped and replaced with <br> elements.

For example, if I paste text the top 2 paragraphs starting from 'Vancouver and Carlsbad' from this web page:

        http://ir.isispharm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=246831

the html in the CuteEditor editor control is:

<p>VANCOUVER and CARLSBAD........<br />
<br />
Eighty-one patients........</p>

This is a problem as my users need to convert paragraphs to bullet point lists. In the case above, the absence of <p>'s around each paragraph cause the entire text to have a single bullet point inserted at the beginning.


In version 5.3 of the editor control, the html pasted into the editor using the 'paste plain text' button looked like:

<p>VANCOUVER and CARLSBAD........</p>
<p>Eighty-one patients........</p>


Which allowed the user to insert a bullet point at the start of each paragraph.