I would like to setup TinyMCE to allow literally any HTML without any cleaning whatsoever. I have tried mirriads of different settings, yet none of them eventually satisfied my needs.
I also need to have an option to make TinyMCE strip any styling from pasted text, and just leave the Ps and the ULs et cetera.
Question 1: This is a big expectation. Remember that the editor has to edit the content. It's a lot to expect it to handle anything a user might paste in and then edit it (bold, underline, indent) correctly. The editor is doing its own cleanup to make the content slightly sane.
Question 2: use the 'valid elements' option. http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration/valid_elements
probably something like valid_elements: 'p,ul,li'
I think you need to alter your submitted content to allow for that.
if using PHP try http://php.net/htmlentities with ENT_QUOTES
what that will do will convert your html into safe to use chars/quotes
ie, this markup
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>hello world</p>
</body>
</html>
Would become this markup.
<p><!DOCTYPE HTML><br /><html><br /><head><br /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br /><title>Untitled Document</title><br /></head><br /><br /><body><br /><p>hello world</p><br /><br /></body><br /></html></p>
