diff --git a/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js b/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
index ed8e93932f..84b7190537 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/draft-js/index.js
@@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ function splitTextIntoTextBlocks(text) {
 export function insertText(state, text, attrs, inlineStyles) {
   const blocks = splitTextIntoTextBlocks(text);
 
+  if (blocks.length === 0) {
+    return state;
+  }
+
   const character = CharacterMetadata.create({style: OrderedSet(inlineStyles)});
 
   let blockArray = DraftPasteProcessor.processText(
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/main/ui/workspace/shapes/text/editor.cljs b/frontend/src/app/main/ui/workspace/shapes/text/editor.cljs
index 135df9ecb3..616cd17b98 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/main/ui/workspace/shapes/text/editor.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/app/main/ui/workspace/shapes/text/editor.cljs
@@ -221,12 +221,13 @@
 
         handle-pasted-text
         (fn [text _ _]
-          (let [current-block-styles (ted/get-editor-current-block-data state)
-                inline-styles        (ted/get-editor-current-inline-styles state)
-                style                (merge current-block-styles inline-styles)
-                state                (-> (ted/insert-text state text style)
-                                         (handle-change))]
-            (st/emit! (dwt/update-editor-state shape state)))
+          (when (seq text)
+            (let [current-block-styles (ted/get-editor-current-block-data state)
+                  inline-styles        (ted/get-editor-current-inline-styles state)
+                  style                (merge current-block-styles inline-styles)
+                  state                (-> (ted/insert-text state text style)
+                                           (handle-change))]
+              (st/emit! (dwt/update-editor-state shape state))))
           "handled")]
 
     (mf/use-layout-effect on-mount)