Paste problem with CKEditor 4.7.0

[smiska]

Are you reporting a feature or a bug?

Bug

Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Copy text to clipboard
2. Paste from the clipboard to the beginning/end/highlighted part of textarea

The screenshots provide pictures about the debugging process. Trying to insert the word "Thank" from the clipboard, in ckeditor.js the this.$.innerHTML contains the full document body, which gets overwritten. In the second and third picture the steps after the insert are visible.

Expected result

The content from the clipboard gets inserted to the location of the cursor

Actual result

The whole document gets wiped out

Other details

• Browser: 58.0.3029.110
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04 (64bit)
• CKEditor version: 4.7.0 full

[mlewand]

Thanks @smiska for the report, can I ask you to provide more detailed step-by-step report? It's my understanding that you're trying to paste a simple "Thank" text into the end of header, and as a result content gets wiped, but I can't reproduce it.

Can you reproduce it on any of our demos?

[smiska]

I'll try to reproduce it in the examples section, in the meantime I provide a screenshot about how the 4.4.0 version of the CKEditor software works in our system. The root issue in #479 seems to be similar. The this keyword somehow doesn't refer to only a dom element, but the entire document in string format. After the paste the elements are in place but are not shown.

[mlewand]

Ok we're waiting for the steps then, because screens won't give us too much of a value now. Try to provide repro steps on one of our CKEditor demos.

[hponka]

Is the editor inside a table? If yes, this is the same bug as here: #460

[smiska]

The text boxes are inside nested divs in which CKEditor is used to edit the text, but those divs are in placed in table elements indeed, and the full editor software (where the problem occurs) has wrapper tables as well. I hope it helps. This problem doesn't happen with CKE 4.6.2 .

[mlewand]

Duplicate of #460.

Thanks for help @hponka indeed it does look like the same case. @smiska please follow #460 issue to keep an eye on it.