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Copy & paste elements

Duplicate makes another copy right where you are. Copy and paste goes further: it carries an element, with everything inside it, to somewhere else entirely — another screen, a layout, a reusable component, an email template.

Copy​

Select an element and either:

  • press Cmd/Ctrl + C, or
  • open the element's ⋮ menu (on the canvas overlay or in the hierarchy) and choose Copy.

The whole subtree comes along — a column you built copies with every link inside it.

With several elements selected the menu reads Copy selection and takes them all, in document order. If your selection includes both a container and something already inside it, the container wins: you get one copy, not two.

Paste​

Select where it should go and press Cmd/Ctrl + V, or choose Paste from the same ⋮ menu. The menu item names what's waiting — Paste Stack, Paste 3 elements — and is greyed out when nothing has been copied.

Where it lands follows the same rule as Add element:

  • Select a container (a Stack, Section, Container) and the copy goes inside it, at the end.
  • Select a leaf — a Screen Link, button, icon, image — and the copy goes beside it as the next sibling, because a leaf has no slot to render children in.

Everything pasted is selected afterwards, so you can retext or restyle it straight away. Paste is a single undo step.

Between documents​

What you copy stays copied after you navigate. Open a different screen, layout, component or template and paste — the clipboard is still there. This is the fastest way to reuse a structure you have already built and refined.

Two things to know:

  • The copy is a snapshot, not a link. Editing the original later does not change what you pasted. When you want one source of truth across many places, promote it to a reusable component instead.
  • Elements have to exist where you're pasting. A block copied from an email template uses email elements, and pasting it into a site screen is refused with a message naming the element that isn't available there. Nothing is half-pasted — the paste either lands completely or not at all.

Copy & paste vs. Duplicate vs. reusable components​

You wantUse
Another one right hereDuplicate
The same structure somewhere else, edited separately from then onCopy & paste
One thing that updates everywhere it appearsReusable component

Shortcuts​

ActionShortcut
Copy selectionCmd/Ctrl + C
PasteCmd/Ctrl + V
Select every element at the same depthCmd/Ctrl + A

These act on elements, not text. While you're editing text — in the attributes panel, in a dialog, or directly on the canvas — the shortcuts do the ordinary thing and copy or paste the text instead.