• 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.
Important Note: We strongly advise against pasting content into the editors, especially images. Pasting copied content can cause problems with your page's display.
To include a saved image in your content, please see Inserting images.
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 avoid copying and pasting text into an editor.
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.