Spaces being added to clean paste

[mhalano]

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Steps to reproduce

1. Go to a YouTube video
2. Select the title of the video
3. Paste on Obsidian using ctrl-shift-v to a clean paste (removing formatting)

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes.

Expected result

Title pasted without spaces before and after the string (string=video title)

Actual result

The video title has spaces before and after.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.0
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Additional information

Using ctrl-v, there is no space before and after. Using ctrl-shift-v, to a clean paste, there are spaces before and after.

[WhiteNoise]

I am not sure what you mean by clean paste, maybe paste without formatting?

Anyway, try to copy and paste on this website and then make a screenshot of the result.

[mhalano]

Yeah. Clean paste means paste without formatting.

I posted yesterday the problem but today I couldn’t reproduce this one related to YouTube. I will wait to happen again and I will use this link to show what I got.

Right now, it also happens in the title of this page, but in this case it just adds a space in the end: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/06/08/build-local-voice-agent-red-hat-openshift-ai#

I can see in this second case there is the `u{10}`, but the space didn’t appear when a just copy and paste with formatting (when the line starts with a hash for the formatting), but when I paste without formatting, the space is there.

[WhiteNoise]

I have been unable to reproduce this problem.

How did install Obsidian? appimage or snap?
Which browser are you using?

Post a screen recording of this happening in the sandbox vault. Thanks

[mhalano]

Here it is. Sorry, I had to convert to GIF because MP4 is not supported in the forum.

I’m using Firefox 151.0.3 and Obsidian installed with .deb package.

[WhiteNoise]

The problem is partially that page and partially firefox.
When you select the whole line, Firefox puts a space at the end the sentence in the clipboard.

On the on the other hand, chrome puts a new line:

This is not something we are gonna work on. Sorry

[mhalano]

Hmmm…. So why when I paste keeping the formatting, Obsidian doesn’t add the space?

[WhiteNoise]

Because the “paste with formatting” is using an HTML to Markdown converter and the extra space is trimmed in that process.

[mhalano]

So, shouldn’t remove the space in the non formatted paste to keep things consistent? Or what another line of action do you suggest, open a bug report to Firefox?

[WhiteNoise]

The paste without formatting uses the text/plain field in the clipboard and doesn’t do anything else. If the space it’s there, it’s there.

You can ask Firefox why they add a space or Chrome why they add a new line.

[mhalano]

If anybody has this problem, here is a link to a bug report about it: 1625057 - Firefox includes trailing space when selecting text via click and drag