Clipboard Plugin

Handles copy, cut, paste, and select all operations with toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.

Description

This plugin provides clipboard functionality for the editor, including:

  • Copy selected content (HTML + plain text)
  • Cut selected content and remove it
  • Paste functionality (handled separately by paste plugin)
  • Select all content
  • Internal buffer storage for clipboard data

Features

  • 4 Toolbar Buttons: Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All
  • Clipboard Events: Intercepts browser copy/cut events
  • Dual Format: Stores both HTML and plain text
  • Internal Buffer: Saves clipboard data to editor's internal buffer
  • Smart Disable: Cut/Copy buttons disabled when no selection
  • Event Hooks: afterCopy event for custom handling

Buttons

All buttons are in the clipboard toolbar group:

Cut

  • Command: cut
  • Disabled: When selection is collapsed (no text selected)
  • Shortcut: Browser default (Ctrl+X / Cmd+X)
  • Action: Copies selection and removes it

Copy

  • Command: copy
  • Disabled: When selection is collapsed
  • Shortcut: Browser default (Ctrl+C / Cmd+C)
  • Action: Copies selection without removing

Paste

  • Command: paste
  • Shortcut: Browser default (Ctrl+V / Cmd+V)
  • Note: Paste logic is handled by the separate paste plugin

Select All

  • Command: selectall
  • Shortcut: Browser default (Ctrl+A / Cmd+A)
  • Action: Selects all editor content

Programmatic Commands

const editor = Jodit.make('#editor');

// Copy selected text
editor.execCommand('copy');

// Cut selected text
editor.execCommand('cut');

// Select all content
editor.execCommand('selectall');

Listen to Copy Event

const editor = Jodit.make('#editor');

editor.events.on('afterCopy', (html) => {
  console.log('Copied HTML:', html);
  // Custom handling after copy
});

Custom Toolbar

const editor = Jodit.make('#editor', {
  buttons: ['bold', 'italic', '|', 'cut', 'copy', 'paste']
});

Disable Specific Buttons

const editor = Jodit.make('#editor', {
  buttons: Jodit.defaultOptions.buttons.filter(btn =>
    btn !== 'cut' && btn !== 'copy'
  )
});

Copy/Cut Flow

  1. User triggers copy/cut (button click or keyboard shortcut)
  2. Plugin intercepts the browser's clipboard event
  3. Gets selected HTML from editor
  4. Sets clipboard data:
    • text/html: Full HTML markup
    • text/plain: Stripped plain text
  5. Stores data in internal buffer (CLIPBOARD_ID)
  6. Fires pasteStack event with the data
  7. If cut: removes selection and refocuses editor
  8. Fires afterCopy event

Internal Buffer

The plugin uses editor.buffer to store clipboard data:

// Access clipboard data from buffer
const clipboardData = editor.buffer.get(CLIPBOARD_ID);

Configuration

This plugin has no specific configuration options. It works with browser's native clipboard API.

afterCopy

Fired after copy/cut operation completes.

Parameters:

  • html: string - The HTML content that was copied
editor.events.on('afterCopy', (html) => {
  // Custom logic
});

pasteStack

Fired to add copied content to paste stack.

Parameters:

  • data: { html: string, action: string }

Notes

  • Buttons automatically disable when there's no selection (for cut/copy)
  • Works with browser's native clipboard API
  • Stores both HTML and plain text formats
  • Internal buffer persists data for paste operations
  • The actual paste handling is done by the paste plugin

Classes

copyFormat

copyFormat(editor): void

Parameters

Name Type
editor IJodit

Returns

void

Defined in

jodit/src/plugins/copy-format/copy-format.ts:158

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