Copying & pasting styles in Elementor

Learn how to copy the visual style from one element and apply it to another using Elementor's Copy and Paste style options.

When two elements on your page should look the same — same font, same color, same border — you do not have to set each one up from scratch. Elementor lets you copy the style from one element and paste it onto another.

Quick summary

Right-click the element that has the look you want and choose "Copy." Then right-click the element you want to restyle and choose "Paste style" (or select it and press Ctrl+Shift+V, or Cmd+Shift+V on a Mac). The visual appearance (colors, fonts, borders, etc.) transfers. The content stays the same.

What you'll need

The Elementor editor open
Two elements: one styled as you want, one that needs updating

How to copy and paste a style

Find the element with the style you want to copy. This could be a button, a heading, a section background — anything with visual settings applied.

Right-click the element. For a widget, right-click its corner. For a container or section, right-click its tab. A context menu appears.

Click "Copy." Elementor keeps a copy of the element, including its style, ready to paste.

Go to the element you want to restyle. This can be on the same page or another page of the same website.

Right-click the target element.

Click "Paste style." The copied look is applied to the target.

Check the result and make any fine adjustments you need.

Publish your changes.

What gets copied — and what does not

Paste style changes only the visual appearance ("look and feel", in Elementor's words). It does not change the element's content.

What changes (the look)	What stays the same (the content)
Colors and backgrounds	Text content
Typography (font, size, weight)	Images
Borders and rounded corners	Link URLs
Shadows and other design settings	Button labels

Elementor doesn't publish an exact list of which settings count as style, so check the result after pasting.

This means you can safely paste a style onto an existing element without losing any of its words, links, or images.

Practical uses for Paste style

Paste style is especially useful when:

You have several buttons that should all look the same but were set up individually
You want a new section to match the color scheme of an existing one
You added a new heading and want it to match the style of an existing heading widget

Pasting a style on another page

You can copy an element on one page and paste its style onto an element on a different page of the same site:

On the source page, right-click the element and choose Copy.

Open the target page in the Elementor editor.

Right-click the target element and choose Paste style.

If Paste style doesn't work

Go back to the source element, copy it again, and paste straight away. To bring an element over from a different website, use Paste from other site instead. Both sites need Elementor 3.11 or later, with the same features turned on. See Elementor's article How do I copy elements from one site to another?

Resetting a style you pasted

If you paste a style and don't like the result, press Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z to undo. This removes the pasted style and restores the element to its previous appearance.

Common questions

I right-clicked but I don't see Copy Style — why?

Current versions of Elementor don't have a separate "Copy Style" option. Choose Copy on the element with the look you want, then Paste style on the target.

Make sure you right-click the element itself: the corner of a widget, or the tab of a container or section. Right-clicking inside an empty container or section opens the page menu instead, which has no Paste style option. If your browser's own menu appears instead, check that you aren't holding Ctrl or Cmd, because Ctrl/Cmd + right-click opens the browser menu. On a Mac, if right-clicking doesn't work at all, set your mouse's right-click option to Secondary click.

It isn't designed for that. Elementor describes Paste style as copying the look from one element to another of the same kind: container to container, section to section, column to column, widget to widget. Pasting a section's style onto a widget is unlikely to give useful results.

Why did pasting the style change some properties but not others?

Different widgets have different style settings, so not every setting on the source has a match on the target. Check the result and adjust anything that didn't carry over.

Need a hand?

If you're stuck, email support@chykalophia.com and we'll help. Include your website address and a screenshot if you can.

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