tinymce - how to save rich text and plain text versions at the same time

Question

I would like to leave user to make rich text with tinymce and save it in db, but also I want to save plain text version.

Does tinymce provide such option?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '13 at 12:35

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No, tinymce is designed to create HTML/rich text. But you are free to grad the plain text content of a tinymce editor and save it yourself.

There you go:

var plain_text = $(ed.getBody()).text();

answered Apr 09 '13 at 12:35

Thariama

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 08:11

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You can get plain text using this code:

var plainText = tinyMCE.activeEditor.getBody().textContent;

ALso you can get html text using this one:

var richText = tinyMCE.getInstanceById('textAreaID').getContent();

answered Jul 08 '13 at 08:11

Peter T.

Great. So could we possibly take this further? I'd like to get the text content, but preserving "line breaks" - meaning I want every `
`, `
`, and other block level elements to translate appropriately to a new line. This content should then be able to sit in a `` according to those line breaks.
– Ifedi Okonkwo Jun 30 '16 at 12:42

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