Glad some people found a use for it, it was essentially a butchered version of earlier MS-Word clean up scripts, but seemed to work for me.

paste_auto_cleanup_on_paste : true

However, I’ve found that both solutions render the keyboard Delete button in the editor window useless. That is, when I select text and hit Delete, nothing happens. Have you encountered this problem, and is there a solution?

I’ve done some pretty thorough testing and it looks like the new version of this plugin is doing its job extremely well. Although it’s not a replacement for Paste-as-plain-text functionality, if you were considering forcing your users to paste as plain text because of problems with MS Word code, you might simply try upgrading TinyMCE to the latest version instead.

More info: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/changelog.php

I agree that the best approach is to prevent users from entering rubbish HTML in the first place rather than trying to clean it up afterwards and can be confusing when all your formatting disappears.

But I do use a server side clean up function as a last resort. I have posted the PHP code for those interested as I couldn’t find anything like this out there so if might save someone some time. It is based on the code at http://www.1stclassmedia.co.uk/developers/clean-ms-word-formatting.php

function clean_word_html($input) {
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*< \/o:p>/’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/.*?< \/o:p>/’, ‘ ’, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;"]+;?/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*;/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*”/i’, ‘\”‘, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*;/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*”/i’, ‘\”‘, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*TEXT-ALIGN: [^\s;]+;?”/i’, ‘\”‘, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: [^\s;]+;?”/i’, ‘\”‘, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*FONT-VARIANT: [^\s;]+;?”/i’, ‘\”‘, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*tab-stops:[^;"]*;?/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*tab-stops:[^"]*/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*face=”[^"]*”/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*face=[^ >]*/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*FONT-FAMILY:[^;"]*;?/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*FONT-SIZE: x-small\s*;/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*color:[^;"]*;?/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/\s*background:[^;"]*;?/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/< (\w[^>]*) class=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/i’, ‘< $1$3', $input);
$input = preg_replace('/\s*style="\s*"/i', '', $input);
$input = preg_replace('/]*>\s* \s*< \/SPAN>/i’, ‘ ’, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/]*>< \/SPAN>/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/< (\w[^>]*) lang=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/i’, ‘< $1$3', $input);
$input = preg_replace('/(.*?)< \/SPAN>/i’, ‘$1′, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/(.*?)< \/FONT>/i’, ‘$1′, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/< \\?\?xml[^>]*>/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/< \/?\w+:[^>]*>/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/< (B|b)> < \/\b|B>/’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/

]*>\s* \s*< \/P>/i’, ”, $input);
$input = preg_replace(‘/>\s* \s*< \//i', '>]+)[^>]*>\s*< \/\1>/’, ”, $input);
return $input;
}

plugins: “safari,paste”,

in your init function.

Here’s my TinyMCE init code:

// initialize the tinyMCE textarea
tinyMCE.init({
mode : “textareas”,
theme : “simple”,
width : “500″,
height : “230″,
setup: function(ed) {

// Force Paste-as-Plain-Text
ed.onPaste.add( function(ed, e, o) {
ed.execCommand(‘mcePasteText’, true);
return tinymce.dom.Event.cancel(e);
});

}
});

Anyone see any problems?