# Disable StartFragment

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/disable-startfragment/51323>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [29 October 2026 10:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/disable-startfragment/51323 "2026-10-29T10:13:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![wiebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/839c29/32.png) [@wiebe](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wiebe)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2026 10:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/disable-startfragment/51323/1 "2026-10-29T10:13:58Z")

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### Operating system

Windows

### Joplin version

3.7.21

### Sync target

Joplin Cloud

### Editor

Rich Text Editor

### What issue do you have?

When pasting text from Joplin into the Joomla CMS additional (invisible) comment text (StartFragment -- EndFragment) was copied with the fragment.  
It took me half an hour to find out where it came from.  
Of course this is very annoying.  
How/where can I switch this off?

### Screenshots

 ![fragment.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/2/e/2e00087e1b305aeead6e377145797781a1ecd075.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2026 10:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/disable-startfragment/51323/2 "2026-10-29T10:23:24Z")

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We don't add these comments, so I think it comes from Joomla

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**Author:** ![wiebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/839c29/32.png) [@wiebe](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wiebe)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2026 10:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/disable-startfragment/51323/3 "2026-10-29T10:40:02Z")

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OMG... it's Windows who does that.  
_On Windows, according to the [mdn doc](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/html-clipboard-format), native apps need to write `<!--StartFragment -->` and `<!--EndFragment -->` tags to indicate the fragment start and end in the HTML markup._

Sorry!