The issue of white fills appearing behind pasted text has been a problem for years. And sometimes the white fill appears when I hit a style button in the Text Inspector. Because of this, I have to keep a text editor open to clear out formatting so I can paste text without making a mess. I’d like to see if this issue could be addressed.
Example: I typed this into a text box:
sample block of styled text
I copied it and pasted it at the end of the end of the line of text. With the pasted text, the bold and italics were dropped and a white fill appeared behind it. When looking at the inner HTML, this is what I found:
sample <b>block</b> of <i>styled</i> text <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-align: left; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sample block</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; text-align: left; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">styled</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> text</span>
That works out to a junk-to-text ratio of 23:1. Yikes!