The following will do this in all major browsers and is an exact duplicate of this answer: function getSelectionHtml() { var html = “”; if (typeof window.getSelection != “undefined”) { var sel = window.getSelection(); if (sel.rangeCount) { var container = document.createElement(“div”); for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) { container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents()); … Read more
It’s a limitation of the FontSize command. There are various options I can think of: You could use a CSS class instead and use the CSS class applier module of my Rangy library; You could use a hacky method, such as calling document.execCommand(“fontSize”, false, “7”); and then finding the elements the command has created and … Read more
Here is what you need. But it’s not cross-browser yet. Works in Google Chrome. <a download=”MyFile.txt” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6464828/your-data-uri-here” draggable=”true” class=”dragout” >Download ready</a> Also Wikipedia has a good article about Data URI
document.execCommand(‘copy’) must be triggered by the user. It’s not only from the console, it’s anywhere that’s not inside an event triggered by the user. See below, the click event will return true, but a call without event won’t and a call in a dispatched event also. console.log(‘no event’, document.execCommand(‘bold’)); document.getElementById(‘test’).addEventListener(‘click’, function(){ console.log(‘user click’, document.execCommand(‘copy’)); }); … Read more
I created the Rich Editor for my platform’s XML (HTML5 + XHTML) editing purposes. I would not say that document.execCommand() is completely dead because some parts of it still work fine. Unfortunately the primary issue for me was that browsers use a lot of different code to generate those styles which are not recognized by … Read more
It will intercept the paste event, cancel the paste, and manually insert the text representation of the clipboard: http://jsfiddle.net/HBEzc/. This should be the most reliable: It catches all kinds of pasting (Ctrl+V, context menu, etc.) It allows you to get the clipboard data directly as text, so you don’t have to do ugly hacks to … Read more