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feat(core): improve Word and Google Docs paste handling - #3226
Add best-effort Word and Google Docs cleanup to the default HTML paste handler, overridable through the existing pasteHandler.
Reconstruct Word lists, including mixed paragraph/native-list nesting, without changing the shared parser, editor APIs, exporters, or programmatic HTML imports.
Preserve Google Docs blank paragraphs without converting hard breaks inside selected paragraphs, headings, or inline wrappers into extra blocks.
Cover four inline clipboard captures with parsed-output snapshots, plus focused list-transition, formatting, table, and boundary regressions.
Intentional fallbacks
This is best-effort conversion, not exact Office preservation. Unsupported Word labels such as iv. or 1.2. remain paragraph text. Original numbers use BlockNote's normal sequential numbering. Native list structures with ambiguous metadata or content boundaries are left intact rather than guessing their parent.
Testing
132 Office checks passed in Docker across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
9 existing clipboard checks passed; 18 Firefox/WebKit clipboard checks remain skipped by the existing suite.
Pasting content copied from Microsoft Word or Google Docs now better preserves list structure and blank paragraphs. Word paragraph-end placeholders are removed, while unsupported list labels remain as text.
Documentation
Added guidance on how external HTML paste handling works, including how custom paste handlers can retain or replace the default behavior.
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The HTML clipboard path now normalizes selected Microsoft Word and Google Docs content before passing it to the editor. The normalization handles supported Word lists and paragraph placeholders, and eligible Google Docs blank paragraphs. Tests and documentation cover the behavior and its limits.
Changes: Office HTML paste handling
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Summary
Office HTML normalization packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/normalizeOfficeHTML.ts, packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/officeHTML.test.ts
Adds Word list and paragraph normalization, and handles eligible Google Docs blank paragraphs. Tests cover list transitions, placeholders, formatting, and unchanged HTML cases.
The HTML clipboard path normalizes content before calling editor.pasteHTML. Documentation describes custom handler behavior and the internal clipboard exception.
sequenceDiagram
participant Clipboard
participant pasteExtension
participant normalizeOfficeHTML
participant Editor
Clipboard->>pasteExtension: provide HTML clipboard content
pasteExtension->>normalizeOfficeHTML: normalize clipboard HTML
normalizeOfficeHTML-->>pasteExtension: return normalized HTML
pasteExtension->>Editor: call editor.pasteHTML
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Some Word Wingdings bullets may paste as paragraphs rather than nested list items, but their content remains available. This is a bounded issue that can be accepted for merge or fixed before release.
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Review comments at @packages/core/src/api/parsers/html/preprocessHTML.ts:
- Around line 64-67: Update the marker validation in preprocessHTML so it
accepts the known Wingdings markers §, Ø, and ü only when a span in markers
declares the Wingdings font; continue rejecting arbitrary single characters. Add
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Cool. This is mostly about lists right? Do we know if there are other concepts that we can improve? should we have more testing documents / feed a suite of docx / google docs?
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Citations:
- 1: https://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/9456?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/word/insert-ascii-or-unicode-character-codes-in-word?utm_source=openai
Script executed:
set -o pipefail
url='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/e7c72a94f7cc6be9dff5ae0bfb81af3eaa42f62d/packages/ckeditor5-paste-from-office/tests/_data/list/mixed-elements/input.word.html'
python3 - "$url"<<'PY'import sys, urllib.requesturl = sys.argv[1]try: data = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=10).read().decode("utf-8", "replace")except Exception as exc: print(f"fetch failed: {exc}") raise SystemExit(2)for i, line in enumerate(data.splitlines(), 1): if any(term.lower() in line.lower() for term in ("mso-list:ignore", "wingdings", "§", "Ø", "ü", "font-family")): print(f"{i}:{line}")PY
Repository: TypeCellOS/BlockNote
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"mso-list:Ignore" ("§" OR "Ø") Wingdings Word HTML bullet
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<title>Could you help me with collecting clipboard examples from Word's custom lists?</title>
<location>https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1hxev4s</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0reddit12 [wordlim: 200] Published: 1.8 years ago; Crawled: 1.8 years ago; The Word is especially notorious with lists, as you can define any symbol as a list's bullet point. ... So I would really like it if you make any custom list in your version of Word, then copy-paste it in some clipboard inspector (e.g., https://evercoder.github.io/clipboard-inspector/ ), and share with me a part that is inside the <body> of text/html version. ... Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ü<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp; ... Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp; ... I created a custom document bullet as a 573×515 PNG image for use in the List Bullet style.
<body lang=EN-CA style='tab-interval:.5in;word-wrap:break-word'>
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<p class=MsoListBullet style='margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:
l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:.5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:
Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]>The “Section” topic in the panel can be expanded
to see the current page setup attributes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</body>
**#3 as text/plain:**
Seal all bags carefully.
Attach the luggage tag.
Both paragraphs used the List Bullet style. The first uses a check mark from Word's list options flyout (the ü symbol in WingDings); the 2nd uses a raised small black square (a § in WingDings).
<body lang=EN-CA style='tab-interval:.5in;word-wrap:break-word'>
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<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:
Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>ü<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]>Seal all bags carefully.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:
Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]>Attach the luggage tag.<o:p></o:p></p>
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**#4 as text/plain**
being unmoved by their pain
This was for a book that needed a custom bullet based on a vector graphic image used elsewhere. I created a custom document bullet as a 573×515 PNG image for use in the List Bullet style. The referenced "src" image is 53 KB and looks like this (the actual bullet matches the body text size).
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<title>#9456 (Properly paste bullet list style from MS-Word) – CKEditor</title>
<location>https://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/9456</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 5 months ago; Paste from Word in IE - Internal error of html formatter - Tabs in empty in lists ... The Webkit regression that introduced recently on Chrome, compared with what we had before, on presenting a (circle) list bullet from MS-Word: ... <span style="mso-list:Ignore">o</span> ... <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;
Thanks for the feedback, sorry for not able to participant earlier in this bug since we'd been working hard to launch version 4.
On topic, this's a recent Webkit regression and in fact CKEditor has been working very well with list transformation from MS-Word in the past, FYI a list of tickets to back this feature:
#5399
Lists pasted from Word do not maintain their nesting
#6330
Roman list style are not pasted properly from Word
#6658
Paste from Word in IE - Internal error of html formatter - Tabs in empty in lists
#6662
Lists copied from Word are not pasted properly.
#7131
Copy/Paste Word List should preserve list properties
#7269
paste from word - footnote links link to document path in webkit based browsers
#7480
Bulleted lists copied from MS Word are pasted into the Editor as Numbered lists
#7872
two-level list pasted from word gets flattened or split
#7898
Problem with Label for Lock ratio button not changing in High Contrast mode
The Webkit regression that introduced recently on Chrome, compared with what we had before, on presenting a (circle) list bullet from MS-Word:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko)
<!--[if !supportLists]-->
<span style="mso-list:Ignore">o</span>
<!--[endif]-->
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko)
<!--[if !supportLists]-->
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;
mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings">o</span>
<!--[endif]-->
As seen above the mso-list:Ignore that we relies on to identify a list item has gone that breaks this feature.
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<title>Feature Request: List paste from Microsoft Office Word miss the mso-list:ignore attribute [40955844] - Chromium</title>
<location>https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40955844</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Published: 13.9 years ago; Crawled: last week; ### Feature Request: List paste from Microsoft Office Word miss the mso-list:ignore attribute ... Check the HTML that presents the list bullet ... The list bullet should be transformed into a text within a span which has attribute mso-list:Ignore, from what it reproduces before this regression:
## Issue 40955844
Chromium > Blink > Editing
40955844
### Feature Request: List paste from Microsoft Office Word miss the mso-list:ignore attribute
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#### Status Update
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#### Description
ya...@gmail.com created issue #1
Nov 27, 2012 07:33AM
Chrome Version : <Copy from: '23.0.1271.64 m'>
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5: OK
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Copy the list content from the attached .doc file
2. Paste it into an div element with contenteditable=true
3. Check the HTML that presents the list bullet
What is the expected result?
The list bullet should be transformed into a text within a span which has attribute mso-list:Ignore, from what it reproduces before this regression:
<!--[if !supportLists]-->
<span style="mso-list:Ignore">o</span>
<!--[endif]-->
What happens instead?
Right now the mos-list:Ignore attribute is missing.
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This issue breaks the paste from word feature of CKEditor, relevant bug report can be found here:
http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/9456#comment:14
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<title>Rich Text Paste: 7 Things That Break in Production | TinyMCE</title>
<location>https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/rich-text-paste-problems-in-production/</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Published: 4 days ago; Crawled: 2 days ago; It sends paragraphs styled to look like a list, with the bullet typed out as a character. ... Word sends a complete HTML document, not a fragment: a `<head>` whose `<style>` block holds the list definitions (the bullet or number format and indent for each level), and a `<body>` whose paragraphs only point at those definitions through `mso-list`. ... @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:\F0B7; text-indent:-.25in;}
## 1. Lists and headings pasted from Word arrive as styled paragraphs
Word doesn’t put `<ul>` or `<ol>` on the clipboard. It sends paragraphs styled to look like a list, with the bullet typed out as a character. An editor that keeps that markup ends up with a fake list: users can’t indent or renumber it, and screen readers don’t announce it as a list.
Those paragraphs are only half of the clipboard payload. Word sends a complete HTML document, not a fragment: a `<head>` whose `<style>` block holds the list definitions (the bullet or number format and indent for each level), and a `<body>` whose paragraphs only point at those definitions through `mso-list`. Windows’ HTML clipboard format carries that context around the copied fragment. Neither half makes sense on its own.
Here’s a short two-level bulleted list as Word puts it on the clipboard, cut down to the parts that matter:
`<head><style>
@list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:\F0B7; text-indent:-.25in;}
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Citations:
- 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1hxev4s?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://microsoft.github.io/roosterjs/coverage/roosterjs-content-model-plugins/lib/paste/WordDesktop/processWordLists.ts.html?utm_source=openai
Recognize Wingdings markers by their font, not by unconditional glyph matching.
Word HTML uses mso-list:Ignore spans for custom Wingdings bullets, including § and ü. The current check rejects these markers, clears stack, and leaves the item as a paragraph.
The font declaration is on an ancestor of the marker span. Use that declaration as the discriminator. Do not add the glyphs to the allowlist unconditionally, because Word supports arbitrary custom bullet symbols.
Suggested fix
--- "a/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/normalizeOfficeHTML.ts"+++ "b/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/normalizeOfficeHTML.ts"@@ -54,14 +54,35 @@
markers.push(span);
}
}
marker = marker.trim();
const ordered = /^(?:[0-9]+[.)]|\([0-9]+\))$/.test(marker);
+ const isWingdingsMarker = markers.some((span) => {+ for (+ let element: Element | null = span;+ element;+ element = element.parentElement+ ) {+ if (+ /\bfont-family\s*:[^;]*\bWingdings\b/i.test(+ element.getAttribute("style") ?? "",+ )+ ) {+ return true;+ }+ }+ return false;+ });
// Do not discard labels we cannot represent, such as multilevel "1.2.".
// Leave these as paragraphs with their original marker and formatting.
- if (!ordered && marker && !/^[·•o▪●○■□‣⁃\-\uF0B7]$/u.test(marker)) {+ if (+ !ordered &&+ marker &&+ !/^[·•o▪●○■□‣⁃\-\uF0B7]$/u.test(marker) &&+ !isWingdingsMarker+ ) {
stack.length = 0;
continue;
}
const tag = ordered ? "ol" : "ul";
for (const span of markers) {
span.remove();
Add tests for a nested Wingdings marker and for a custom non-Wingdings marker.
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@packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/normalizeOfficeHTML.ts at line
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Update the marker validation in normalizeOfficeHTML to recognize custom glyphs
only when a marker span or its ancestor declares Wingdings, rather than adding
those glyphs to the allowlist. Preserve rejection of unsupported non-Wingdings
markers, and add coverage for a nested Wingdings marker and a custom
non-Wingdings marker.
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Summary
pasteHandler.Intentional fallbacks
This is best-effort conversion, not exact Office preservation. Unsupported Word labels such as
iv.or1.2.remain paragraph text. Original numbers use BlockNote's normal sequential numbering. Native list structures with ambiguous metadata or content boundaries are left intact rather than guessing their parent.Testing
Related: #2356 and #449.
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