Safari can't handle tables pasted from Excel

[Jakub Ś]

Issue has been reproducible from CKEditor 3.0 Tested on Safari 5.1

To reproduce:

1. Copy table form any of the attached Excel files
2. Paste this table into CKEditor using CRTL+V, paste buttorn or paste from word button

Result: Table gest pasted as text.

<p>
	&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a b c d &nbsp;</p>

Edit: I have just checked this in Safari on Windows in plain contenteditable div. It seesm that Safari only sees text. There nothing CKEditor can do here.

[Jakub Ś]

This ticket has also been described in #6465 which also tackles problem with pasting from Excel

[swetha_java]

This issue still persist in CkEditor 3.6.2. Tested in IE 7, IE 9

Lost table format, when copy from Excel to Editor using Paste, ctrl-v, Paste from Word.

I am using config.pasteFromWordRemoveStyles=false; which preserving format from MS Word.

Do I need to use any special configuration to preserve the Excel format, when I copy.

[Jakub Ś]

@swetha_java you should use both options:

config.pasteFromWordRemoveFontStyles=false;
config.pasteFromWordRemoveStyles = false; 

Nevertheless, IE being best in transferring data from Excel it still loses some attributes. Browser always gets to data before JavaScript thus there is nothing we can do here.

[Jakub Ś]

Ok, I think it is time to close this ticket. Safari 5.1 is dead and bug mentioned here was in fact Safari bug.

At the moment pasting from excel is not supported but this is because browsers other than IE have problems with that content.

General issue has been reported here: #13623.