Paste into a paragraph block

  • Resolved drtonyb

    (@drtonyb)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    How can text be pasted into an existing paragraph block?

    If I paste at the end of a block, a new block is created with the pasted content. If I paste somewhere within the text of a block, two new blocks are created: the existing block is split into two and the pasted content inserted into a new block between them. This is rubbish!

    Pasting is pretty basic editing, so I don’t understand the rationale behind this still very clunky editor – still a very long way from being efficient in my limited experience with Gutenberg so far.

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  • Thread Starter drtonyb

    (@drtonyb)

    Found my problem – content being pasted had a new line at the end of it.

    Still, if I paste content like this at the end of an existing block, should a new block be created or not?

    Each paragraph is in it’s own block. But that shouldn’t deter you copy/pasting text into the editor. In the back-end the paragraph was always separate from the previous paragraph. Now you can actually to more with a single paragraph. (changing background color, etc)

    If you like to have more of a previous editor experience, you can use the “Classic Block”. It even has the old full toolbar for you.

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