Copy & Pasting Text Best Practices

When copying and pasting text from external sources (websites, document files, etc.) additional code can sometimes be mistakenly copied along with the text. In these situations unnecessary bloat and potentially broken code can be added to your website.

To avoid such errors we recommend the following method to copy and paste text into EE Builder or a text area in EECMS.

Right Click + Paste as Plain Text (Microsoft Windows only)

1. Copy the text using your preferred method, by highlighting the text and either pressing CTRL+C on your keyboard 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, right click and select 'Paste as Plain Text' from the context menu.

   This will paste the text without any additional code or styling carried over.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Copy the text using your preferred method by highlighting the text and either pressing CTRL+C (or CMD+C on Mac) on your keyboard 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.