Paste from a MS Word document into a web form

Question

What is the most common way that people retain basic formatting elements such as bold accent and italics when copying to a text box from an MS Word document. I noticed that Gmail does this well, and StackOverflow does not. Are there common frameworks that do this?

Answer 1

Perhaps one of the most common rich text controls is FCKEditor (now, thank God, it's called CKEditor). It does a great job of saving the format when pasting from Word.

Answer 2

We use FreeTextBox as a replacement for a multi-line text field in ASP.NET, the rich text entered here retains its formatting when cut and inserted into the word.