Copying and pasting best practices

When copying and pasting text from external sources (websites, document files, etc.) additional hidden code can sometimes be mistakenly copied along with the text. This can cause unnecessary bloat in your platform install and risks broken code being added to your website.


To avoid such errors we recommend the following best practices to copy and paste text.

Right click and paste as plain text (Microsoft Windows only)

  1. Highlight the text you wish to copy and either press 'CTRL+C' on your keyboard or right-click the highlighted text and select 'Copy' from the context menu.
  2. In the text area where you'll be pasting your content, right click and select 'Paste as Plain Text' from the context menu. This will paste the text without any hidden code or styling carried over.

Using keyboard shortcuts

  1. Highlight the text and either press 'CTRL+C' (or 'Command+C' on Mac) or by right-clicking the highlighted text and selecting 'Copy' from the context menu.
  2. In the text area where you'll be pasting your content use keys 'CTRL+SHIFT+V' (or 'CMD+OPTION+SHIFT+V' on Mac). This will paste the text without any additional code or styling carried over.
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