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This may be one solution if we keep having problems like in #3044
But, in the interest of time and until we are able to see if formatting issues are common, perhaps we could table this one?

Ha, I just wasn't certain.

I have added a Clear Formatting button in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-advanced-profiles/commit/d234700886754ae4db53235ab55832bc58c22c48. This will be ready to test on cdev after we have finished using it for some other My Commons testing.

Thanks - looking forward to checking it out.

Adding Chris and Samantha as watchers. Chris and Samantha, could you please have a look at the implementation on cdev? Log in > go to profile edit > create a free text widget > checkout the "Clear formatting" link. It's not particularly beautiful, and I'd be open to making minor design changes for 1.7. Thanks!

Looks like it works well to me. Many thanks, Boone.

I agree - it works well!

There doesn't seem to be a way to undo after you've cleared the formatting. This could be frustrating for someone who changes their mind after clicking it or who clicks on it unintentionally. Would it be possible to add an undo link or to at least allow the functionality of the browser's undo?

Thanks, Samantha. I think that an undo button may be overkill, but allowing undos via browser/keyboard via cntrl-z seems reasonable if possible and not too heavy of a lift

Samantha - I agree that at least enabling the ctrl-z undo would be nice. But supporting this is going to be quite difficult - clicking a hyperlink is not natively recorded by browsers as an undoable action, and I'm not sure that there's an API accessible to javascript that'd allow us to intervene into browser action history like this. The alternative would then be to fake it by capturing all ctrl-z keypresses and checking against some custom history, but this is likely to be pretty buggy, so I'd prefer to avoid it for 1.7 at this point.

Maybe we could mitigate this by requiring confirmation of "Clear formatting"? Ie a popup "Are you sure you want to remove all formatting from this field? OK/Cancel" This is doable for 1.7.

Maybe we could mitigate this by requiring confirmation of "Clear formatting"? Ie a popup "Are you sure you want to remove all formatting from this field? OK/Cancel" This is doable for 1.7.

That sounds very reasonable to me.

Yep, sounds good. Thanks, Boone!

Thanks for explaining the ctrl-z limitation too. That's good to know going forward.