Recently I noticed that when I paste (some) text into the composer span tags are included. For example <span lang="en">Then the brahmin Jānussoṇi went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him.</span><span lang="en">When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one s…

Where did you copy the text from? @renato has been doing some fixes in this area recently, not sure if there’s been any regressions though.

Here is an example page . I have tried pasting similar text that has spans without the lang params and they paste as normal, i.e. no html span tags. That’s why I’m thinking it has to do with the lang I should also note we are on v2026.7.0-latest.

I merged an improvement yesterday to avoid these span HTML elements when they come from Word, but I’ll take another look with your example. Please let us know if you find any other example. Just note than a span element with the lang attribute is a valid combination as an inline html markdown-it to…

Someone suggested I share a screenshot of what I mean: [image] In the rendered (?) version it looks fine except for the fact that the space is missing between the spans. EDIT: But we don’t want them in the composer at all. They make things really messy and hard to read.

[image] renato: my concern is “fixing it too much” and stripping instances with additional attributes that were intentional I’m curious where you are at with this. I’m 100% sure this started happening recently on our forum. We haven’t done an upgrade in about three weeks. Are you planning on …

It does seem like the missing whitespace is a real issue that should be fixed; once that’s taken care of the extra lang tags only look weird in the editor without actually hurting the final post.

[image] riking: the extra lang tags only look weird in the editor without actually hurting the final post While technically true, for our users (who are almost all non-coders) having all of those spans pasted in is indeed problematic. Because our source material puts these spans around every …

I think Renato is working on a fix FIX: Strip `lang` from pasted spans (#42163) main ← strip-pasted-lang-spans Zusammengeführt am 05:03PM - 04 Aug 26 UTC (UTC) …

Has something changed with pasting html into the composer?

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renato (Renato Atilio) August 6, 2026, 6:04pm 11

This has been merged. Let us know if there’s anything still missing.

Thank you!

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Has something changed with pasting html into the composer?

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