Add "clear formatting" feature about squire

[kalin]

This is also amongst my biggest frustrations when I moved from gmail to fastmail. I find I have to cut and paste-without-formatting (cmd-option-shift-V) every day just to clean up format soup in email drafts.

[neilj]

Yep, I'd be interested in adding this to Squire (and FastMail) I think. The question is does it just clear inline formatting, or also block level formatting (changing h1,p -> div etc.)?

[AmadeusW]

That's a good question. I'd expect it to clear all kinds of formatting.

[AntonTrollback]

+1

clear inline formatting, or also block level formatting

Both, two options <3

[mickdekkers]

+1

[carsol]

+1 :)

[gertsonderby]

+1 from us at One.com too. We're evaluating Squire for our webmail application, and need this feature.

[crossjs]

like tinymce:
just clear style and class attribute.

[neilj]

If you just clear the attributes, that will have no impact on <i> or <b> tags adding inline formatting.

[gertsonderby]

I've been considering ways to do this. Removing all tags beyond a short whitelist (P, BR, DIV? Others?) in the selected range should do the trick marvelously, possibly adding clearing style tags in the range. But the functionality for removing styling that I've seen is more targeted toward removing a specific list of tags. Not sure yet how to solve it, but definitely up for trying - though my schedule is pretty packed right now. Doubt I'll be able to crack into it before June rolls around.

[neilj]

My suggestion would be to remove all nodes in the selection for which isInline ( node ) && !isLeaf( node ). You obviously need to split the start/end if the selection is midway through such tags.

That should clear inline formatting. To clear block formatting as well, I would probably use the getNextBlock fn to iterate through all blocks in the selection and dump their contents into a new defaultBlockTag node, then remove the current content and replace it with the new nodes.

[neilj]

Implemented (thanks @gertsonderby!) and merged into the master branch. There is now a new removeAllFormatting method.