diff --git a/src/composables/useCopy.ts b/src/composables/useCopy.ts
index d24e7603c5..b2455fef86 100644
--- a/src/composables/useCopy.ts
+++ b/src/composables/useCopy.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import { useEventListener } from '@vueuse/core'
 
 import { useCanvasStore } from '@/renderer/core/canvas/canvasStore'
+import { shouldIgnoreCopyPaste } from '@/workbench/eventHelpers'
+
+const clipboardHTMLWrapper = [
+  '<meta charset="utf-8"><div><span data-metadata="',
+  '"></span></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Text</span>'
+]
 
 /**
  * Adds a handler on copy that serializes selected nodes to JSON
@@ -9,28 +15,19 @@ export const useCopy = () => {
   const canvasStore = useCanvasStore()
 
   useEventListener(document, 'copy', (e) => {
-    if (!(e.target instanceof Element)) {
-      return
-    }
-    if (
-      (e.target instanceof HTMLTextAreaElement &&
-        e.target.type === 'textarea') ||
-      (e.target instanceof HTMLInputElement && e.target.type === 'text')
-    ) {
+    if (shouldIgnoreCopyPaste(e.target)) {
       // Default system copy
       return
     }
-    const isTargetInGraph =
-      e.target.classList.contains('litegraph') ||
-      e.target.classList.contains('graph-canvas-container') ||
-      e.target.id === 'graph-canvas'
-
     // copy nodes and clear clipboard
     const canvas = canvasStore.canvas
-    if (isTargetInGraph && canvas?.selectedItems) {
-      canvas.copyToClipboard()
+    if (canvas?.selectedItems) {
+      const serializedData = canvas.copyToClipboard()
       // clearData doesn't remove images from clipboard
-      e.clipboardData?.setData('text', ' ')
+      e.clipboardData?.setData(
+        'text/html',
+        clipboardHTMLWrapper.join(btoa(serializedData))
+      )
       e.preventDefault()
       e.stopImmediatePropagation()
       return false
diff --git a/src/composables/usePaste.ts b/src/composables/usePaste.ts
index c04901951a..551065f0d5 100644
--- a/src/composables/usePaste.ts
+++ b/src/composables/usePaste.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ import { useCanvasStore } from '@/renderer/core/canvas/canvasStore'
 import { app } from '@/scripts/app'
 import { useWorkspaceStore } from '@/stores/workspaceStore'
 import { isAudioNode, isImageNode, isVideoNode } from '@/utils/litegraphUtil'
+import { shouldIgnoreCopyPaste } from '@/workbench/eventHelpers'
+
+function pasteClipboardItems(data: DataTransfer): boolean {
+  const rawData = data.getData('text/html')
+  const match = rawData.match(/data-metadata="([A-Za-z0-9+/=]+)"/)?.[1]
+  if (!match) return false
+  try {
+    useCanvasStore()
+      .getCanvas()
+      ._deserializeItems(JSON.parse(atob(match)), {})
+    return true
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(err)
+  }
+  return false
+}
 
 /**
  * Adds a handler on paste that extracts and loads images or workflows from pasted JSON data
@@ -38,15 +54,10 @@ export const usePaste = () => {
   }
 
   useEventListener(document, 'paste', async (e) => {
-    const isTargetInGraph =
-      e.target instanceof Element &&
-      (e.target.classList.contains('litegraph') ||
-        e.target.classList.contains('graph-canvas-container') ||
-        e.target.id === 'graph-canvas')
-
-    // If the target is not in the graph, we don't want to handle the paste event
-    if (!isTargetInGraph) return
-
+    if (shouldIgnoreCopyPaste(e.target)) {
+      // Default system copy
+      return
+    }
     // ctrl+shift+v is used to paste nodes with connections
     // this is handled by litegraph
     if (workspaceStore.shiftDown) return
@@ -109,6 +120,7 @@ export const usePaste = () => {
         return
       }
     }
+    if (pasteClipboardItems(data)) return
 
     // No image found. Look for node data
     data = data.getData('text/plain')
diff --git a/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts b/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
index c8424ee6bf..6dbedb475b 100644
--- a/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
+++ b/src/lib/litegraph/src/LGraphCanvas.ts
@@ -3853,11 +3853,10 @@ export class LGraphCanvas
    * When called without parameters, it copies {@link selectedItems}.
    * @param items The items to copy.  If nullish, all selected items are copied.
    */
-  copyToClipboard(items?: Iterable<Positionable>): void {
-    localStorage.setItem(
-      'litegrapheditor_clipboard',
-      JSON.stringify(this._serializeItems(items))
-    )
+  copyToClipboard(items?: Iterable<Positionable>): string {
+    const serializedData = JSON.stringify(this._serializeItems(items))
+    localStorage.setItem('litegrapheditor_clipboard', serializedData)
+    return serializedData
   }
 
   emitEvent(detail: LGraphCanvasEventMap['litegraph:canvas']): void {
@@ -3893,6 +3892,7 @@ export class LGraphCanvas
     if (!data) return
     return this._deserializeItems(JSON.parse(data), options)
   }
+
   _deserializeItems(
     parsed: ClipboardItems,
     options: IPasteFromClipboardOptions
@@ -3909,6 +3909,7 @@ export class LGraphCanvas
     const { graph } = this
     if (!graph) throw new NullGraphError()
     graph.beforeChange()
+    this.emitBeforeChange()
 
     // Parse & initialise
     parsed.nodes ??= []
@@ -4078,6 +4079,7 @@ export class LGraphCanvas
     this.selectItems(created)
 
     graph.afterChange()
+    this.emitAfterChange()
 
     return results
   }
diff --git a/src/workbench/eventHelpers.ts b/src/workbench/eventHelpers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1030f3415d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/workbench/eventHelpers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/**
+ * Utility functions for handling workbench events
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Used by clipboard handlers to determine if copy/paste events should be
+ * intercepted for graph operations vs. allowing default browser behavior
+ * for text inputs and other UI elements.
+ *
+ * @param target - The event target to check
+ * @returns true if copy paste events will be handled by target
+ */
+export function shouldIgnoreCopyPaste(target: EventTarget | null): boolean {
+  return (
+    target instanceof HTMLTextAreaElement ||
+    (target instanceof HTMLInputElement &&
+      ![
+        'button',
+        'checkbox',
+        'file',
+        'hidden',
+        'image',
+        'radio',
+        'range',
+        'reset',
+        'search',
+        'submit'
+      ].includes(target.type))
+  )
+}