Convert HTML to plain text in contentEditable

Question

I have a contentEditable and I strip the formatting of pasted content on(\'paste\') by catching the event. Then I focus a textarea, paste the content i

Answer 1

1. Create an external div,
2. Put your html in that div,
3. Copy the text from that div
4. Insert it at the cursor's position.

Answer 2

The solution I used is to set the innerText of the element on blur:

$element.on('blur', () => this.innerText = this.innerText);

This keeps the whitespace, but strips the formatting. It may work acceptable in your scenario as well.

Answer 3

Replace tag solution:

http://jsfiddle.net/tomwan/cbp1u2cx/1/

var $plainText = $("#plainText");
var $linkOnly = $("#linkOnly");
var $html = $("#html");

$plainText.on('paste', function (e) {
    window.setTimeout(function () {
        $plainText.html(removeAllTags(replaceStyleAttr($plainText.html())));
    }, 0);
});

$linkOnly.on('paste', function (e) {
    window.setTimeout(function () {
        $linkOnly.html(removeTagsExcludeA(replaceStyleAttr($linkOnly.html())));
    }, 0);
});

function replaceStyleAttr (str) {
    return str.replace(/(<[\w\W]*?)(style)([\w\W]*?>)/g, function (a, b, c, d) {
        return b + 'style_replace' + d;
    });
}

function removeTagsExcludeA (str) {
    return str.replace(/<\/?((?!a)(\w+))\s*[\w\W]*?>/g, '');
}

function removeAllTags (str) {
    return str.replace(/<\/?(\w+)\s*[\w\W]*?>/g, '');
}

Answer 4

Upon request from Jonathan Hobbs I am posting this as the answer. Thanks to the answers above I modified my code and solved the issue. I basically copied the value of textarea into a div and grabbed only its .text():

// on paste, strip clipboard from HTML tags if any
$('#post_title, #post_content').on("paste", function() {
  setTimeout(function(){
    var text = $('<div>').html($("#area").val()).text();
    pasteHtmlAtCaret(text);
  }, 20);
});