diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 061e5cce4..858c23de7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ web-sys = { version = "0.3", features = [
     "Blob",
     "Url",
     "Response",
+    # Async clipboard read for paste into the text/MText editors (iced's own
+    # clipboard read is a no-op on the web).
+    "Clipboard",
 ] }
 # Browsers without WebGPU (e.g. Firefox by default) need wgpu's WebGL2 backend;
 # `webgl` enables it. `fira-sans` embeds the default UI font — the web has no
diff --git a/src/app/mod.rs b/src/app/mod.rs
index 561507c5c..1bbf3e896 100644
--- a/src/app/mod.rs
+++ b/src/app/mod.rs
@@ -799,6 +799,14 @@ pub enum Message {
     PollWebFonts,
     /// Web: a per-script font finished fetching — `Ok(bytes)` or `Err(reason)`.
     WebFontLoaded(crate::scene::text::web_font::Script, Result<Vec<u8>, String>),
+    /// Ctrl+V. Routed by `update`: into the open text/MText editor (via an async
+    /// system-clipboard read, which is the only paste path that works on the
+    /// web) or, with no editor open, the entity paste command.
+    PasteShortcut,
+    /// System-clipboard text read for the MText editor (`None` = empty/denied).
+    MTextPasteClip(Option<String>),
+    /// System-clipboard text read for the single-line TEXT editor.
+    TextInlinePasteClip(Option<String>),
     OpenFile,
     /// File picker returned. `Some((path, size_in_bytes))` → start loading;
     /// `None` → user cancelled the dialog (no overlay shown).
diff --git a/src/app/update.rs b/src/app/update.rs
index 3441ae569..260291048 100644
--- a/src/app/update.rs
+++ b/src/app/update.rs
@@ -4840,6 +4840,57 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                 }
                 Task::none()
             }
+
+            // Ctrl+V. The MText editor and (on the web) the TEXT editor read the
+            // system clipboard asynchronously — the only paste path that works
+            // in the browser, where the synchronous clipboard the iced
+            // text_input expects is empty. With no editor open it falls through
+            // to the entity paste command.
+            Message::PasteShortcut => {
+                if self.mtext_editor.is_some() {
+                    // Web reads via the browser's async Clipboard API (iced's
+                    // sync clipboard read returns nothing there); native uses
+                    // iced's clipboard.
+                    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+                    return Task::perform(
+                        crate::sys::read_clipboard_text(),
+                        Message::MTextPasteClip,
+                    );
+                    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+                    return iced::clipboard::read().map(Message::MTextPasteClip);
+                }
+                if self.text_inline.is_some() {
+                    // Web: the iced text_input can't reach the async clipboard,
+                    // so paste it ourselves. Native: the focused text_input
+                    // already handled Ctrl+V — doing it here would duplicate.
+                    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+                    return Task::perform(
+                        crate::sys::read_clipboard_text(),
+                        Message::TextInlinePasteClip,
+                    );
+                    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+                    return Task::none();
+                }
+                Task::done(Message::Command("PASTECLIP".to_string()))
+            }
+            Message::MTextPasteClip(text) => {
+                if let Some(text) = text.filter(|t| !t.is_empty()) {
+                    // CR/LF arrive as line breaks; MText keeps "\n", drop "\r".
+                    self.mtext_type(&text.replace('\r', ""));
+                    self.rebuild_mtext_preview();
+                }
+                Task::none()
+            }
+            Message::TextInlinePasteClip(text) => {
+                if let Some(text) = text.filter(|t| !t.is_empty()) {
+                    // Single-line field: collapse newlines, append at the end.
+                    let flat = text.replace(['\r', '\n'], " ");
+                    if let Some(ed) = self.text_inline.as_mut() {
+                        ed.value.push_str(&flat);
+                    }
+                }
+                Task::none()
+            }
             Message::TextInlineOk => {
                 self.text_inline_commit();
                 Task::none()
diff --git a/src/app/view.rs b/src/app/view.rs
index 27b91d3ae..ad9b5f9c8 100644
--- a/src/app/view.rs
+++ b/src/app/view.rs
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                                 "y" => Some(Message::Redo),
                                 "c" => Some(Message::Command("COPYCLIP".to_string())),
                                 "x" => Some(Message::Command("CUTCLIP".to_string())),
-                                "v" => Some(Message::Command("PASTECLIP".to_string())),
+                                "v" => Some(Message::PasteShortcut),
                                 _ => None,
                             },
                             // Printable glyphs are already handled by the
diff --git a/src/sys.rs b/src/sys.rs
index 4443ea925..dbe759801 100644
--- a/src/sys.rs
+++ b/src/sys.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ pub fn open_url(url: &str) {
     }
 }
 
+/// Web: read text from the system clipboard via the async Clipboard API.
+/// iced's own `clipboard::read` is a no-op on the web (the browser clipboard is
+/// async + permission-gated), so the editor paste paths use this instead. The
+/// Ctrl+V keypress that drives it is a user gesture, so the read is permitted.
+/// Returns `None` when denied, empty, or unsupported.
+#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+pub async fn read_clipboard_text() -> Option<String> {
+    let clipboard = web_sys::window()?.navigator().clipboard();
+    let value = wasm_bindgen_futures::JsFuture::from(clipboard.read_text())
+        .await
+        .ok()?;
+    value.as_string()
+}
+
 /// Turn an `rfd` file handle into a `PathBuf` the rest of the app keys on.
 ///
 /// Desktop returns the real filesystem path. The browser has no path, so we