Copying html text with format to clipboar?

[Son KwonNam]

I found some information about copying text to clipboard in IE,
but it does not preserve html formats.

Is this possible to copy some html area, and when I paste it into MS Word or Excel,
I could see the same fonts, table, colors, blah, blah... on Word or Excel??

Regards,
KwonNam.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

^^^^^^^^^
And I dislike people who falsify sender addresses and spoil namespaces, too.
Tough luck.


PointedEars

 

[SteveSu]

I´m interested in the same topic. I want to copy formated text from a
label (span) to word still having it formated with tables etc.
My code now looks like

window.clipboardData.setData("Text", mySpan.innerText);
or
window.clipboardData.setData("Text", mySpan.innerHTML);

Using the first line the text is copied unformated. Using the second
line the text is copied with the html-tags, which is then also visible
in Word when pasting.

Anyone have an idea on how to accomplich this?
Son KwonNam: Please let me know if you found the solution.

Thanks
/ Stefan

 

[RobG]

I´m interested in the same topic. I want to copy formated text from a
label (span) to word still having it formated with tables etc.
My code now looks like

window.clipboardData.setData("Text", mySpan.innerText);
or
window.clipboardData.setData("Text", mySpan.innerHTML);

Using the first line the text is copied unformated. Using the second
line the text is copied with the html-tags, which is then also visible
in Word when pasting.

Anyone have an idea on how to accomplich this?
Son KwonNam: Please let me know if you found the solution.

You need to think about what is happening. If what you copy is not a
valid HTML document or document fragment, what should the receiving
application do with it? What will the clipboard do with it?

Look at Edit -> Paste special in Word to see what your options are.

 

[Randy Webb]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said the following on 11/30/2005 8:36 PM:

^^^^^^^^^
And I dislike people who falsify sender addresses and spoil namespaces, too.
Tough luck.

But at least it's not a forged sender address

 

[SteveSu]

Thanks for the reply RobG!
Using window.clipboardData.setData("Text", mySpan.innerHTML); i got
html in the clipboard.
I tried to do a "paste special" in Word but my only options are
Unformatted Text and Unformated Unicode-Text which both results in the
html being pasted into word.
Do you know how I can make it work?