Gutenberg: Rich text blocks should include a Clear Formatting option

[Clorith]

With rich text blocks, such as paragraphs, quotes etc. You may also get unexpected formatting when pasting resources from other locations.

We do not offer a way to clear this formatting though, we should definitely include the clear formatting option in any rich text block, as this is likely to pop up in any of them.

For reference, the classic block does have the clear formatting option, although hidden in the extended kitchen sink, but we obviously want to promote the use of the new streamlined blocks.

[designsimply]

Noting for reference that Command+Shift+V has been suggested as a way to paste content without formatting in past discussions and that ideas were also explored around offering a contextual choice for how to handle content at the time it is pasted (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/6132#issuecomment-380767105).

[travelmassive]

This is crazy. Most editors (who are non-technical) have no idea that copy/pasting from sources such as Google docs, etc will cause the text to be wrapped up in divs/spans that then go on to destroy formatting in the posts.

Asking people to Command+Shift+V is a flawed workaround.