diff --git a/frontend_tests/node_tests/copy_and_paste.js b/frontend_tests/node_tests/copy_and_paste.js
index d5b5952644..38a9d332a9 100644
--- a/frontend_tests/node_tests/copy_and_paste.js
+++ b/frontend_tests/node_tests/copy_and_paste.js
@@ -33,4 +33,12 @@ var copy_and_paste = zrequire('copy_and_paste');
// and the ' \n' is a bit strange as well
assert.equal(copy_and_paste.paste_handler_converter(input),
' \n1\\. text');
+
+ input = 'Zulip overview
';
+ assert.equal(copy_and_paste.paste_handler_converter(input),
+ 'Zulip overview');
+
+ input = 'This text is italic';
+ assert.equal(copy_and_paste.paste_handler_converter(input),
+ '*This text is italic*');
}());
diff --git a/static/js/copy_and_paste.js b/static/js/copy_and_paste.js
index acbf8e6716..b35961425b 100644
--- a/static/js/copy_and_paste.js
+++ b/static/js/copy_and_paste.js
@@ -141,7 +141,24 @@ function copy_handler() {
}
exports.paste_handler_converter = function (paste_html) {
- var markdown_html = toMarkdown(paste_html);
+ var converters = {
+ converters: [
+ {
+ filter: ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'],
+ replacement: function (content) {
+ return content;
+ },
+ },
+
+ {
+ filter: ['em', 'i'],
+ replacement: function (content) {
+ return '*' + content + '*';
+ },
+ },
+ ],
+ };
+ var markdown_html = toMarkdown(paste_html, converters);
// Now that we've done the main conversion, we want to remove
// any HTML tags that weren't converted to markdown-style