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    copied!<p>Ok, I can't be the only one with this problem that seems to go on forever and ever.</p> <p>We use browser-based html editors (a few different ones) - each one has its own 'paste-from-word' button that works great.</p> <p>However, many of our users just paste in directly from word into the design area. For us, this results in the end-of-the-world -- sometimes it breaks javascript or other things too numerous to mention.</p> <p>So, I have decided to write a simple function that searches the content of the source code, and if it sees any bad characters that are associated with a microsoft word paste, to throw back a match of 'this looks like a ms-word paste'. Currently, it looks like this:</p> <pre><code>// detect potentially bad characters - usually from msword paste function hasInvalidChars ( in_element ) { var src = $j(in_element).val(); var e = $E(src); // enhanced string var bad = Array( "mso-list:", "class=\"Mso", "&lt;/o:p&gt;", "[if !supportLists]", "style=\"mso-", "mso-bidi", "“", "”", "&lt;v:shapetype", "&lt;v:path", "file:///" ); for ( i=0; i&lt; bad.length; i++ ) { if ( e.contains(bad[i]) ) { return true; } } return false; } </code></pre> <p>Note that if you try running the code, it won't work because (1) i use jQuery and (2) i have a special object ( $E ) that adds a bunch of stuff to a string, one being a 'contains()' function, but you get the idea of what it's doing.</p> <p>What I am looking for are the array elements that belong in the 'bad[]' array. I have come up with a preliminary list (which may or may not be a good starting point), but I am asking you experts out there - please - can you tell me which characters or phrases you would put here? At this point, if I could catch 80% of the issues, I would be ecstatic.</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
 

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