Re: [flexcoders] Copy/Paste but removing HTML formatting

Ok, I can answer my own question now... On the underlying textfield component of the textarea, set the useRichTextClipboard property to false. Mark Carter wrote: I should have mentioned, this is within the same flex app. Therefore, I suppose I don't need to use the System clipboard at

[flexcoders] Copy/Paste but removing HTML formatting

I want the user to be able to copy text from an HTML-formatted Text Area and paste into a non-HTML TextArea. However, when they do this, the pasted text appears with the same formatting as in the original (indentation, font size etc). How can this be avoided? -- View this message in context:

Re: [flexcoders] Copy/Paste but removing HTML formatting

I should have mentioned, this is within the same flex app. Therefore, I suppose I don't need to use the System clipboard at all. However, I still want the user to be able to use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V and right-click context menu to perform these actions. Is it easy to override those from their default