How can we get only the text part in the text areas using VisualFormat Editor

Hi,

Using the VFE, the value of the text area gets saved as combination of html tags and the text entered there by the user.
However we need to store the textual content only.
Can anyone help me to get the desired o/p.

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iwovGraduate

If you don't want the HTML formatting why use the VFE? You can just use a textarea without VFE.

Prerna

Actually i want to use some of the features provided by VFE, like spellCheck!!

iwovGraduate

Never really thought of using the VFE just as spell checker.

I havne't tried this but you maybe able to get it by stripping out all the formatting options from the VF config, including any styles. This way anything you enter will be saved without additional formatting. I think you may still have to strip out the "p" tags but that should be easy to do.

You might also want to look at the documentation for TinyMCE to see if it has better options for what you want.

Prerna

Never really thought of using the VFE just as spell checker.

I havne't tried this but you maybe able to get it by stripping out all the formatting options from the VF config, including any styles. This way anything you enter will be saved without additional formatting. I think you may still have to strip out the "p" tags but that should be easy to do.

You might also want to look at the documentation for TinyMCE to see if it has better options for what you want.

Thanks for your reply..
Can u plz tell me how are u planning to strip the "p" tags??
Using regex/ substr will not be too good as we might use

like things in our regular text also..

Prerna

Thanks for your reply..
Can u plz tell me how are u planning to strip the "p" tags??
Using regex/ substr will not be too good as we might use
or
like things in our regular text also..

The opening & closing "p" tags are made invisible, i suppose..

i wanted to say - Using regex/ substr will not be too good as we might use opening "p" tag () or closing "p" tag () like things in our regular text also..

moonkhanna

As far as I remember - User input html will have p tag

as whereas VFE specific html will have p tag

as p tag only.

SO only thing you need to do is to remove the html tags using a function which triggers onSave.

Note : somehow I was not able to express the ; for < and > but your original code will have < followed by a ; and > followed by a ;.

Hope the above addresses your concern.

ISCBorisB

The opening & closing "p" tags are made invisible, i suppose..

i wanted to say - Using regex/ substr will not be too good as we might use opening "p" tag () or closing "p" tag () like things in our regular text also..

You can (re)configure your VFE so that is not generated in the first place. See here and here

Sailesh

Can also go directly to source part of html and remove the tags manually.

ISCBorisB

Can also go directly to source part of html and remove the tags manually.

You've got to be kidding...

moonkhanna

Good one !