[#MDL-16621] Word Document style descriptor visible on Save using some wysiwyg editors and Online Text Assignment Activity in Firefox

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Key:	MDL-16621
Type:	Bug
Status:	Open
Priority:	Major
Assignee:	moodle.com
Reporter:	Susan Mangan
Votes:	23
Watchers:	17

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Word Document style descriptor visible on Save using some wysiwyg editors and Online Text Assignment Activity in Firefox

Created: 23/Sep/08 05:31 AM Updated: 21/Jan/10 02:56 AM

Component/s:

Assignment, HTML Editor

Affects Version/s:

1.8.6, 1.9.2

Fix Version/s:

None

Environment:

Firefox 3.0.1

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This issue has a non-specific relationship to:

MDL-10180 Editor deletes spaces using the Word-to-HTML Function

Database:	MySQL
Participants:	Deb Sarlin, Edith Lin, Elena Ivanova, Kenneth Newquist, Kevin Metcalf, moodle.com, Raul Rodriguez, Robert Puffer and Susan Mangan
Security Level:	None
Affected Branches:	MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE

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Word Document style descriptor becomes visible after clicking Save.

- cut and paste a line of text from a Word document (versions 2000 and 2003) into the submission of an Online Text Assignment (or) the Summary field of the Web Page resource (or) the Summary and HTML editor of the Wiki (only those tested so far)

- click save

Behavior only occurs when using Firefox 3.0.1, not IE 6.

Odd thing is that when using the Web Page resource, you can copy and paste the same line of text into the Summary and the HTML editor and on Save, only the Summary displays the style descriptor. The actual HTML editor seems to display fine. So, the problem doesn't appear to be linked to the editor itself.

Example style descriptor pasted below:

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Kevin Metcalf added a comment - 14/Oct/08 12:58 AM

My users are reporting this exact same issue. When looking at the post in "source view," I can see that the initial < and closing > have be converted to < and > respectively. Is it possible the Firefox 3 is interpreting the pasted HTML incorrectly? Has anyone looked at more recent version of FF 3 to see if that has solved the issue?

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Edith Lin added a comment - 04/Nov/08 11:06 AM

My users use Quickmail and have the same problem. MS Word style descriptor shown at the top of the email. I'm looking forward to having a solution soon. Thanks!

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Deb Sarlin added a comment - 05/Nov/08 12:40 AM

Very, very confusing to users!

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Kenneth Newquist added a comment - 05/Nov/08 01:01 AM

I ran into this earlier in the semester. The basic problem is that Firefox 3 has changed the way it handles copy and pasting from other apps. This change means it gets extraneous code from Word, and the various WYSIWYG editors – which attempt to strip out said code – haven't caught up with it yet.

Here's a bunch of forum posts/tracker for TinyMCE and CKEditor which discuss possible solutions:

Ticket #2291: Simple copy & paste from Word document - extra code not stripped
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2291

Pasting from Word in Firefox 3 Doesn't Remove Meta/Style Tags
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/thread/b311D-bgedka.aspx

Paste as Word: 'extra' code in Firefox
http://tinymce.moxiecode.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=12385

Paste from Word not converting Word comments
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=12405

So it's less a Moodle thing and more an HTMLArea thing, which would ultimately be solved in Moodle 2.0 when they upgrade to a different WYSIWYG editor (assuming said editor has updated its Word filters).

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Elena Ivanova added a comment - 07/Feb/09 01:44 AM

p.s. IE 7 gives the same issue

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Raul Rodriguez added a comment - 15/Jan/10 03:01 AM

The issue still persists even on the latest version of Moodle and Firefox...

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Susan Mangan added a comment - 21/Jan/10 02:49 AM

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5.7 and the problem still occurs.

I understand this is not a Moodle problem necessarily, but what I don't get is why this problem exists using some of the html editors in Moodle and not others. For example, the online text assignment: If you cut and paste from Word into the Description box, the problem does not occur. However, cut and paste the same text into the submission area and it does exist.

Is there not some way we can filter these additional html editors the same way the 'Description' boxes are filtered?

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Robert Puffer added a comment - 21/Jan/10 02:56 AM

CLAMP (Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project) – http://clamp-it.org has a 1.95 version of Moodle using TinyMCE as the editor which gets around this problem. The 1.97 version is due out very soon and is in production at a number of CLAMP schools.

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