Ajax htmleditorextender pasted content not updating to database

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Good day, this is driving me absolutely crazy trying to solve this so after seven frustrating hours, I'll ask the question. I have an htmleditorextender on a page. I can type content into it and it saves to the database just fine on submit - formatted and unformatted. However, if I paste content into it from the clipboard (ctl v), nothing gets carried over to the database. I can't for the life of me see what I'm missing ... here is the relevant section of code... and many thanks for looking at this...

VB

<asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Today's entry"></asp:Label><br />
    <ajaxToolkit:HtmlEditorExtender ID="HtmlEditorExtender1" 
        DisplaySourceTab="True"  runat="server" 
        TargetControlID="BContent">
         <Toolbar> 
                <ajaxToolkit:Cut />
                <ajaxToolkit:Copy />
                <ajaxToolkit:Paste />
                <ajaxToolkit:CreateLink />
                <ajaxToolkit:UnLink />
                <ajaxToolkit:RemoveFormat />
                <ajaxToolkit:SelectAll />
                <ajaxToolkit:UnSelect />
                <ajaxToolkit:Delete />
                </Toolbar>
    </ajaxToolkit:HtmlEditorExtender>

    <asp:TextBox ID="BContent" runat="server" Rows="16" TextMode="MultiLine" 
        Width="689px"></asp:TextBox>

Posted 25-Apr-14 7:39am

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 25-Apr-14 14:01pm

And how you are saving the content to database?

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 25-Apr-14 14:16pm

So, BContent.Text is the parameter, which is the Text inside Extender, right?

Member 10722372 25-Apr-14 14:19pm

Yes, that is correct. And like I said, it works great if I physically type into BContent. But if I ctl-v any content into it, text or rtf, nothing carries over to the Insert. Baffling to me. :)

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 26-Apr-14 5:03am

But it is working for me.

Sunasara Imdadhusen 26-Apr-14 5:26am

please use improve question option instead of adding answer in comment section

Member 10722372 26-Apr-14 13:08pm

I'm still having no luck and worked on it most of the night. Anyone? The SQL Server database field is nvarchar(MAX) that I'm trying to write to. I've been testing it by randomly coping text from cnn.com, and also just plain text from my UltraEdit text editor. The SQL queries are working great - but the only way the BContent.Text value will make it to the database is if it's typed in rather than pasted in. I even have an alert to let me know onClientChange, so I know that something is happening prior to submit. I am using HtmlAgilityPackSanitizerProvider. Normally, I have an issue and I work it through on my own without posting for help. But this one is kicking my butt. Thanks much.

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Member 10722372 · Answer 1 · 2014-04-27T04:12:00

Okay, well, I got it partly working. As you'll see in my original source code, I only have some of the buttons included. Once I started including all the buttons in the menu, it started working.

That said, it's not working well - not translating some closing tags correctly, stripping out some paragraph and line break tags, and it won't allow me to embed YouTube embed code (which I presume in the santizer). So basically, unless I can resolve those issues, this is still a clunky, problematic part of my project ... any tips on these issues in this paragraph are greatly appreciated. Or if there's a way to still have it accept a paste without having to have all the icon options in the menu. I really don't want people bolding and centering and doing weird stuff to the content they post. Cheers to you.