Tag: javascript

Tried to write a bit of rich-text HTML to the user’s clipboard like this:

const html = "<p>Hello <strong>world!</strong></p>";
const clipboardItemData = {
    ["text/html"]: html
};
const clipboardItem = new ClipboardItem(clipboardItemData);
await navigator.clipboard.write([clipboardItem]);

That worked fine in Firefox but in Chrome the page simply crashed. STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION was all it said. Debugging showed that navigator.clipboard.write() caused the crash. There were no issues with creating the ClipboardItem.

It turns out that for Chrome it’s really necessary to first create a blob from the HTML string:

const html = "<p>Hello <strong>world!</strong></p>";
const blobHtml = new Blob([html], { type: "text/html" });
const clipboardItemData = {
    ["text/html"]: blobHtml
};
const clipboardItem = new ClipboardItem(clipboardItemData);
await navigator.clipboard.write([clipboardItem]);

Et voilà, the rich text will be on the clipboard.

Please note that copying to clipboard is only possible when initiated by a user, i.e. in the handler of a click event.