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WebView.CopyFormattedText

Copies formatted text from web view to clipboard.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
WebView 3.1 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes
MBS( "WebView.CopyFormattedText"; WebViewerRef )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
WebViewerRef Either the Web Viewer Object Name or the Web Viewer ID as returned by "WebView.FindByName" function.

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Copies formatted text from web view to clipboard.
You can insert it with the insert script step.
Works well in FileMaker 12. In FileMaker 11 there are bugs so FileMaker doesn't import styles right from clipboard.

Works for WebKit 2.x with plugin version 9.0.
On windows, we do select all, copy and unselect to get all text to clipboard.

See also

Release notes

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 3th July 2020


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