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…

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.

Has something changed with pasting html into the composer?

Support

zogstrip July 15, 2026, 8:51am 2

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.

Topic		Replies	Views
Custom processing of html in composer paste? Support	2	55	July 15, 2026
`white-space` CSS property of clipboard data not respected when pasting in rich text editor Bug composer	12	401	January 16, 2026
Coincidental Markdown in formatted content pasted to rich text editor rendered on publish Bug composer	0	92	October 27, 2025
Please bring back in new composer: insert link from clipboard on selected text Support composer	3	165	July 18, 2025
Rich Text editor in topics breaks white-space characters in multiple ways Bug composer , markdown , code	4	337	October 15, 2025

Has something changed with pasting html into the composer?

Related topics