

#PLAIN TEXT CLIPBOARD CODE#
If you copy the source code of a web page to the clipboard, it is not going to remove all the HTML tags. It will not fix word-wrap or clean up your paragraphs. It will not remove or fix new-lines, carriage returns, tabs, or other white-space. However, it does not modify the actual text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left/right/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. PureText only removes rich formatting from text. using To copy an exact string (literal in this case): Clipboard.SetText ('Hello, clipboard') To copy the contents of a textbox either use TextBox.Copy () or get text first and then set clipboard value: Clipboard.SetText (txtClipboard.Text) See here for an example. However, I need a faster way of doing thihs. Once you launch the Clipboard, find the text that you want to paste without formatting and click on the three horizontal dots.

This strips of all new line characters or carriage returns and works perfectly.

Paste the text in an URL bar of a browser.The function receives the element id or the element itself. With this simple function you can copy whatever you want (text, images, tables, etc.) on your page or the whole document to the clipboard. In principle a program could be written that monitors the clipboard for new content and flattens any non-text content to just plain text. I want to copy some text from a webpage or a document and paste it somewhere else after stripping all formatting and whitespace.*** Currently, I do this by: Copy a section of your page (element) than copying HTML. Copy to clipboard as plain text Ask Question Asked 9 years ago Modified 6 years, 3 months ago Viewed 22k times 16 Im using this code in background.
