Hi there
Has anyone had issues with text formatting being a bit weird when cutting and pasting from Google Docs into Webflow?
My client has been having trouble with editing the text once its been entered.
Anyone had issues with this?
Thanks
Graham
Google Docs is a rich text editor which means they’re pasting in a whole bunch of invisible formatting that usually doesn’t play well with non rich-text destinations (from my experience).
I paste from GDocs all the time. It’s part of my publishing workflow.
Keep your source simple; paragraphs, blockquotes, headings, bold, italics, lists.
Images generally work fine as well.
Anything else… tables, smart elements, etc won’t travel.
Webflow had an issue at one point after adding the Markdown support, where on paste it would mis-identify some pasted content as Markdown and you’d see a dramatically different result. I think that’s been disabled as a clipboard-paste feature, but if they’ve re-enabled it, it’s possible you’re content could be tripping it up somehow.
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Yes that was my fear too. I usually paste it into Text Edit first and make it plain text.
If you use Windows, try CTRL+SHIFT+V, typically it will paste the plaintext only version from the clipboard. I think that’s an app-level feature rather than a Windows-level feature, but Chrome ( at least ) seems to support this.