How to make tinymce paste in plain text by default

Question

Googled it thousands of times, No one gives a complete solution of how to make Tinymce paste in plain text by default and strip out any formatting without clicking the "paste as text" button.

Any Ideas of how to implement that? or how to enable the "paste as text" button automatically?

Thank you

Answer 1

The problem is that Paste plugin automatically resets plain text paste on every paste. So all we need to do - set it back. The following code should help.

tinyMCE.init({
...
oninit : "setPlainText",
plugins : "paste"

....
});

The definition of setPlainText

 function setPlainText() {
        var ed = tinyMCE.get('elm1');

        ed.pasteAsPlainText = true;  

        //adding handlers crossbrowser
        if (tinymce.isOpera || /Firefox\/2/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
            ed.onKeyDown.add(function (ed, e) {
                if (((tinymce.isMac ? e.metaKey : e.ctrlKey) && e.keyCode == 86) || (e.shiftKey && e.keyCode == 45))
                    ed.pasteAsPlainText = true;
            });
        } else {            
            ed.onPaste.addToTop(function (ed, e) {
                ed.pasteAsPlainText = true;
            });
        }
    }

So now it always will be plain.

Answer 2

I'm not sure this is possible, since "paste as plaintext" actually performs cleanup on the text before it adds it to the window. If you just paste data into the window, no operations can be done. (Unless you hooked into the onChange or something), but they you might end up fixing code that had already been pasted and thus, 'double fixing' it.

Answer 3

I have solved this problem with this code

tinyMCE.init({
...
plugins : "paste",
paste_text_sticky : true,
setup : function(ed) {
    ed.onInit.add(function(ed) {
      ed.pasteAsPlainText = true;
    });
  }
....
})