copy HTML text using the clipboard javascript API

Question

I want to be able to copy images and HTML text and past it into my web application.

I am using the clipboard API to do so and my code works fine for images, for which I use:clipboard API read

But for text, I am using this: clipboard API readText And I am only able to paste the raw text, not the HTML formatted text.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

This should already be possible in Safari and Chrome Canary , by simply calling navigator.clipboard.write with text/html , just like you currently do so with images via image/png .

(This was implemented in Chrome 86, and so will available in Stable Chrome by October 6 )