"plain text" as default mode in HtmlArea

Feature request: set “plain text” as default mode (no switcher)

Problem:

Some times content creators mess up their own content by copying and pasting from other applications (like Word).

Solution:

Remove all formatting when pasting into an HtmlArea. Can we get a way to set “plain text” as the default mode, and not show the PasteModeSwitcher to the content creator?

Bonus task (maybe):

(I don’t know if this has been fixed already).

HTML-comments are not removed from the markup in the HtmlArea when it washes the content. I’ve seen a lot of instructions from Figma (in HTML comments) end up online in production.

– Tom Arild

Remove all formatting when pasting into an HtmlArea. Can we get a way to set “plain text” as the default mode, and not show the PasteModeSwitcher to the content creator?

We’ll register this as a feature request although for a better followup I suggest you register this via support desk or as an issue in the feature request repository.

Not sure if this will help with your case, but “Cmd-Shift-V” will always paste in text in plain mode, regardless of currently selected paste mode.

HTML-comments are not removed from the markup in the HtmlArea when it washes the content. I’ve seen a lot of instructions from Figma (in HTML comments) end up online in production.

This looks more like a bug to me, comments should always be stripped. We’ll investigate if there’s an easy way to fix this.

Registered the feature request here and an improvement for removing comments here

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