Why does the whole Doc paste as bold in plain editors?

Docs puts your copied text inside a element that carries a normal font weight of its own. A naive paste honors the and bolds everything. This tool reads that normal weight on the wrapper and clears it, so only runs that are actually bold come through bold.

What font weight counts as bold from Docs?

A weight of 500 or higher is treated as bold, matching the editor standard. Lighter weights, including the 400 in the Docs wrapper, are treated as normal.

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How Google Docs maps to Markdown

Feature	Google Docs	Markdown
Bold	font weight 700 span	x
Italic	italic style	x
Link	<a href>	[text](url)
Underline	underline style	dropped

Common gotchas

Docs wraps every copied fragment in a element whose own style sets font-weight normal. This tool reads that and clears the bold, so only genuinely bold runs stay bold.
Docs writes formatting as inline CSS on spans rather than as or tags, so bold is detected from a font weight of 500 or more, not from a tag.
Heading paragraphs map to the matching Markdown heading level, so a Heading 1 becomes a single hash.
Docs comments, suggestions and footnotes are not part of the copied text and do not come through.
Text colors and highlights have no Markdown equivalent and are dropped.

Frequently asked

Why does the whole Doc paste as bold in plain editors?: Docs puts your copied text inside a element that carries a normal font weight of its own. A naive paste honors the and bolds everything. This tool reads that normal weight on the wrapper and clears it, so only runs that are actually bold come through bold.
What font weight counts as bold from Docs?: A weight of 500 or higher is treated as bold, matching the editor standard. Lighter weights, including the 400 in the Docs wrapper, are treated as normal.