• What gets pasted
• Clearing formatting
• Pasting without formatting
• Pasting cleanup rules
To paste content copied from another source – such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple's Pages, a website, or an email – click where you want the content to appear then click the Paste icon within the content editor.
On browsers other than Internet Explorer, you may be prompted to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the Paste icon to paste your text.
You can paste content into a content gadget, email body, event description, blog post, or forum topic.
What gets pasted?
You can paste both text and graphics from other sources. When pasting formatted text, the content editor will try to preserve as much of the formatting as possible, but will discard any incompatible formatting – formatting that it cannot reproduce itself.
For example, some table formatting and text alignment options available in Microsoft Word may not be available in Wild Apricot's content editor, and will be discarded when pasting. For a list of supported formatting code, see Pasting cleanup rules (below).
While the editor is processing the pasted content, the following message will appear:
Whether graphical images are pasted along with the text depends on the source from which you copied the content. When pasting from sources that store images using URLs – such as Google Docs, web pages, and emails – any images included in the content will get pasted. When pasting from other sources – such as Microsoft Word – images will be discarded.
To modify the settings of the pasted images, you cannot use the Settings dialog as you would when modifying a picture inserted directly through the content editor. Instead, you must click the HTML button within the content editor and modify the HTML code.
Clearing formatting
To clear all character formatting – formatting applied directly to text, rather than through text styles – select the text you wanted cleared, then click the Clear formatting icon within the content editor.
Pasting text without formatting
To completely avoid introducing formatting issues, we suggest that you paste only clean text – text without formatting. To paste text without formatting, use the Ctrl + Shift + V shortcut on Windows, and the Command + Shift + V shortcut on a Mac.
Pasting cleanup rules
The following is a list of formatting tags, attributes, and styles supported by the content editor, which are therefore retained by the new process for cleaning up incompatible formatting.
Supported tags
The following HTML tags are supported; all other tags are removed.
P |
UL |
TH |
EM |
H1 |
OL |
TD |
I |
H2 |
LI |
A |
U |
H3 |
TABLE |
IMG |
S |
H4 |
THEAD |
BR |
STRIKE |
H5 |
TBODY |
SPAN |
SUP |
H6 |
TFOOT |
STRONG |
SUB |
BLOCKQUOTE |
TR |
B |
FONT |
Supported attributes
The following combinations of attribute, tag, and value are supported; all other combinations are removed.
Attribute |
Tags |
Value |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
face |
FONT |
Any |
|
color |
FONT |
#, A-F and 0-9 |
|
align |
P, H1-H6, TD |
left, center, right, justify |
|
align |
IMG |
left, right |
|
valign |
TD |
top, middle, bottom |
|
width |
IMG, TABLE, TH, TD |
Digits and can be px or % at the end of the line |
|
height |
IMG, TABLE, TH, TD |
Digits and can be px or % at the end of the line |
|
alt |
IMG |
Any |
|
title |
IMG, A |
Any |
|
src |
IMG |
Any |
|
href |
A |
Any |
|
name |
A |
Any |
|
border |
IMG, TABLE |
Digits and can be px at the end of the line |
For table converted to style border on tags TABLE and TH/TD |
bordercolor |
TABLE |
#, A-F and 0-9 or color name |
Converted to style border on tags TABLE and TH/TD |
cellspacing |
TABLE |
Digits and can be px at the end of the line |
|
cellpadding |
TABLE |
Digits and can be px at the end of the line |
|
bgcolor |
TABLE |
#, A-F and 0-9 |
Supported styles
The following combinations of style, tag, and value are supported; all other combinations are removed.
Rule |
Tags |
Value |
|---|---|---|
border-width |
TABLE, TH, TD |
Digits and px at the end of the line |
border-style |
TABLE, TH, TD |
solid |
border-color |
TABLE, TH, TD |
Valid CSS color |
border-collapse |
TABLE |
collapse |
font-size |
FONT |
Digits and px at the end of the line |
background-color |
TH, TD, FONT, SPAN |
Valid CSS color |
Styles to tags conversion
The following combinations of CSS rule and value are converted to the following HTML tags.
Rule |
Value |
Tag |
|---|---|---|
font-weight |
bold |
strong |
font-style |
italic |
em |
font-size |
Digits and px/pt at the end of the line |
font |
color |
Valid CSS color |
font |
font-family |
Any |
font |
text-decoration |
underline |
u |
text-decoration |
line-through |
strike |
vertical-align |
sub |
sub |
vertical-align |
super |
sup |
Other rules
- Empty occurrences of P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, BLOCKQUOTE, A, SPAN, STRONG, B, EM, I, U, S, STRIKE, SUP, SUB, and FONT tags will be removed.
- Multiple nested tags FONT will be merged into one.
