Copy as Plain Text

A common problem in web design is copying and pasting text into your website.

When you use the Copy command from browsers it will pick up the styling code from the website (font sizes, colors, text styling). That code can reek havoc on your website styling.

Solutions for Browsers

Firefox has an addon called Copy as Plain Text.

In Chrome, Copy as Plain Text

Internet Explorer, there really isn't an option. But here is a work around: Open Notepad, paste into it, copy it, and paste into IE.

On a Mac you can try pasting using Shift + Option + Command + V

Word Documents

This is also very common when copy and pasting from a Word document. When you copy and paste from Word, you can pick up 100's of lines of word code just for one sentence.

The solution: Copy the text from Word and email to yourself on a web based email program, ie: Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. Then use the Copy as Plain Text program and then paste into the website.

Here is an example of the amount of word code that was on a page before the first word of the web page.....

<h1 style="text-align: center;"> </h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">

Copy as Plain Text

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