Removing Text Formatting Documentation

The text formatting cleanup functionality is provided through the Remove Format plugin which by default is available in the Standard and Full distributions.

When the plugin is enabled, the button is automatically added to the toolbar. You can use it to remove any text formatting that is applied through inline HTML elements and CSS styles, like basic text styles (bold, italic, etc.), font family and size, text and background colors or styles applied through the Styles drop-down. Note that it does not change text formats applied at block level.

Since this feature applies to inline styles, you need to select the text fragment whose formatting is to be removed.

<h1><big>Apollo 11</big></h1>
				Apollo 111&nbsp;was the
				spaceflight that landed the first humans, Americans
				Neil Armstrong and Buzz
				Aldrin, on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto
				the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.
				Armstrong spent about <del>three and a half </del><ins>two and a half
				hours</ins> outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly
				less; and together they collected 47.5
				pounds (21.5&nbsp;kg) of lunar material for return to
				Earth. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the
				command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it for the trip back to Earth.
				<h2>Broadcasting and quotes <a
				id="quotes" name="quotes"></a></h2>
				Broadcast on live TV to a
				world-wide audience, Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as:
				<blockquote>
				One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
				</blockquote>
				Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed
				in 1961 by the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a speech before the United States
				Congress:
				<blockquote>
				[...] before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
				</blockquote>
				<hr />
				1&nbsp;Source: <a
				href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11">Wikipedia.org</a>

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Removing text formatting

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
  <title>Removing text formatting</title>
  <script src="https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.25.0-lts/standard-all/ckeditor.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <textarea cols="80" id="editor1" name="editor1" rows="10">&lt;p&gt;This is some &lt;strong&gt;sample text&lt;/strong&gt;. You are using &lt;a href=&quot;https://ckeditor.com/&quot;&gt;CKEditor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</textarea>
  <script>
    CKEDITOR.replace('editor1', {
      height: 250,
      // Adding Text and Background Color, Font Family and Size buttons to make sample
      // text styling more spectacular.
      extraPlugins: 'colorbutton,font',
      // By default, some basic text styles buttons are removed in the Standard preset.
      // The code below resets the default config.removeButtons setting.
      removeButtons: '',
      // Rearrange the toolbar slightly.
      toolbarGroups: [{
          name: 'clipboard',
          groups: ['clipboard', 'undo']
        },
        {
          name: 'editing',
          groups: ['find', 'selection', 'spellchecker']
        },
        {
          name: 'links'
        },
        {
          name: 'insert'
        },
        {
          name: 'forms'
        },
        {
          name: 'tools'
        },
        {
          name: 'document',
          groups: ['mode', 'document', 'doctools']
        },
        {
          name: 'colors'
        },
        {
          name: 'others'
        },
        {
          name: 'about'
        },
        '/',
        {
          name: 'basicstyles',
          groups: ['basicstyles', 'cleanup']
        },
        {
          name: 'paragraph',
          groups: ['list', 'indent', 'blocks', 'align', 'bidi']
        },
        {
          name: 'styles'
        }
      ],
      removeButtons: 'PasteFromWord'
    });
  </script>
</body>

</html>