How to copy formatting from selected text?

Question

Here is one of us that puzzled me. When I select text and paste it into any of Google’s applications, such as documents or a laptop, it somehow manages to insert text with its original formatting, and sometimes with images. Can someone tell me how to do this using javascript / jquery?

Edit: Another scenario that I am considering is designing a copy / paste mechanism on the server.

Answer 1

You can use contenteditableto do this:

<div contenteditable="true">Stuff pasted in here will retain their original HTML</div>

Here is a simple demo for this: http://jsfiddle.net/AA3Kq/

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