navigator.clipboard

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard

Clipboard()

Creates an instance of Clipboard.

Note: Clipboard access is not supported for 3P plugins with manifest version upto 4. Valid manifest entry required from manifest version 5.;

Set data to clipboard. Note: This is a non-standard API.

Returns: Promise

Param	Type	Description
data	`object`	The data to store in the clipboard. The object keys are the mime types, so for text, use `text/plain` as a key.

Example

navigator.clipboard.setContent({"text/plain": "Hello!"});
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navigator.clipboard.setContent({"text/plain": "Hello!"});

Get data from clipboard. Note: This is a non-standard API.

Returns: Promise
Example

navigator.clipboard.getContent();
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navigator.clipboard.getContent();

Write data to clipboard. This can be used to implement cut and copy functionality.

Returns: Promise
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/write
Since: v6.0

Param	Type	Description
data	`object`	The data to set.

Example

navigator.clipboard.write({"text/plain": "Hello!"});
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navigator.clipboard.write({"text/plain": "Hello!"});

Write text to clipboard. This can be used to implement cut and copy text functionality.

Returns: Promise
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/writeText
Since: v6.0

Param	Type	Description
text	`object`	The text to set. Note, currently this will fail unless this is an object of the form {"text/plain": "text to set"}. This will be fixed in a future release.

Example

navigator.clipboard.writeText({"text/plain": "Hello!"});
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navigator.clipboard.writeText({"text/plain": "Hello!"});

Read data from clipboard.

Returns: Promise
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/read
Since: v6.0
Example

navigator.clipboard.read();
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navigator.clipboard.read();

Read text from clipboard.

Returns: Promise
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/readText
Since: v6.0
Example

navigator.clipboard.readText();
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navigator.clipboard.readText();

Clear clipboard content. Note: Nonstandard: This method is non-standard.

Returns: Promise
Since: v6.0
Example

navigator.clipboard.clearContent();
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navigator.clipboard.clearContent();

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