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Draftail editor crashes on paste - Firefox settings

See original GitHub issue

Issue Summary

The Draftail editor disappears when I try to paste some text in a new page.

Steps to Reproduce

From the Wagtail’s admin:

Create a new page which has at least one RichTextField
Paste some text in this field, it doesn’t matter the source - e.g. enriched text from LibreOffice or simple text from a notepad.

Note that when I edit a page with some content already defined in this field, I do not encounter this bug: I can paste some text without any issue - except some formatting issues, but it is another topic!

Technical details

Python version: 3.5.3
Django version: 2.0.2
Wagtail version: 2.0
Browser version: Firefox ESR 52.6.0

Here is the error I have in the Firefox console when I paste some text:

> DOMException [NotFoundError: "Node was not found"
code: 8
nsresult: 0x80530008
location: http://localhost:8090/static/wagtailadmin/js/vendor.js:1]  vendor.js:1:144547
> NotFoundError: Node was not found  vendor.js:1

Thanks in advance!

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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jeromelebleucommented, Mar 13, 2018

Nice! We all learned something, so that time was well spent. I’ve added a note in the Draftail docs about troubleshooting this, and will leave it at that for now.

Yes, indeed! Thanks for the note.

I had a deeper look into why this setting was false - by the way, it was from the Parabola iceweasel package, a fully Free (as in freedom) operating system, not Debian. I found several pages which are talking about disabling this setting in Firefox to enforce privacy - see here or here.

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jeromelebleucommented, Mar 11, 2018

@thibaudcolas, you’re welcome! I totally understand that testing all browsers - and all versions! - and trying to make it works with all of them is quite painful…

I am running Debian Buster (testing) and it works indeed with other browsers. I tried with Firefox 58.0.1 and Chromium 62.0.3202.89. It seems to be specific to Firefox ESR version only so.

Finally you mention some formatting issues — could you give more details? The Draftail editor is fairly new so it would be good to know where things break down.

I did not encountered those formatting issues while testing with those browsers - I did not encountered any issue in fact!

Let me know if you need further details. Also, let me know if I should open a bug report on the Draftail repository instead. For now I’ve switched back to the Hallo editor which doesn’t have this issue.

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