Pasted text does not get the applied style

[semiadam]

By design, my app does not allow rich text. Meaning that, all text styles are applied to the entire text element by applying .set() on the itext object. However, if user copy/paste some text within the itext, the applied style will not be applied to the pasted text, so I ended up having a textbox with different text styles in it (see snapshot and fiddle).

Version

2.3.0

Test Case

http://jsfiddle.net/Da7SP/1647/

Steps to reproduce

Edit text box. Select a few letters. Hit CTRL+C and CTRL+V to duplicate those letter. Click on button to change the

Expected Behavior

The entire content of textbox must get the applied style.

Actual Behavior

Pasted letter do not get the applied style.

[semiadam]

Hello @kangax and @asturur ,
Any thoughts on this one?

[semireg]

This worked for me:

document.addEventListener('keydown', this.keyHandler.keydown, false);

then...

keydown = (e: any) => { fabric.copiedTextStyle = null; }

[asturur]

i wonder if this should be another config options. like useStyleOnPaste?

[asturur]

what you can get is either segments of pasted style or no style pasted.

There are additional methods like cleanStyle that should allow you to eliminate style where possible.

[melchiar]

I just encountered the same issue with my app since I'm trying to keep the styling uniform within each textbox as well. I ended up just overriding insertNewStyleBlock function like so to prevent the creation of style blocks.

fabric.Textbox.prototype.insertNewStyleBlock = function() {}

@asturur, would you be okay if I did a PR to add a config option for modifying this behavior as you suggested?

[asturur]

i thought we did something like that.

[asturur]

i think we can get away with a boolean disableStyleCopying property on the Text Class so that that object has an empty object or whatever it has to have to do not carry over any style?

well or a better name.

[stale]

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[sponno]

Adding this line fixes the issue
fabric.disableStyleCopyPaste = true