Document Editor · Editing Features

Clipboard

Compare the local and server clipboards and preserve rich content across editing workflows.

Clipboard modes

Two clipboards, one editor

Choose where copied content should travel. TX Text Control switches the keyboard shortcuts and ribbon commands to the selected clipboard automatically.

Current modeWaiting for the editor

Reading clipboard settings

Choose a clipboard

Changes immediately

Try the active mode

Select formatted content in the editor, copy it, and paste it into Microsoft Word or another local application.

Ctrl+CCopy Ctrl+VPaste Ctrl+XCut

Local transferReady for a selection

When local mode prepares rich content for copying, its progress appears here.

What this demonstrates

Why a web editor needs two clipboards

Browsers deliberately restrict operating-system clipboard access. TX Text Control provides a local clipboard for desktop interoperability and a server clipboard for unrestricted document-internal operations.

Clipboard selection

TXTextControl.clipboardMode

Available modes

TXTextControl.ClipboardMode.Client / Server

Mode synchronization

clipboardModeChanged

Transfer feedback

clipboardDataTransferStart / Progress / Complete / Aborted

How it works

In ClipboardMode.Client, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+X exchange content with the local computer. The editor accepts RTF, HTML, plain text, and images. Rich Text Format can be processed directly, preserving sophisticated Word-compatible formatting instead of flattening everything to HTML.

In ClipboardMode.Server, the same commands use TX Text Control's internal clipboard stack. This mode is intended for operations inside the editor and can retain the complete document model, including elements that a browser clipboard cannot represent reliably.

Assigning TXTextControl.clipboardMode changes the active mode. The clipboardModeChanged event also captures changes made through the ribbon, keeping custom UI synchronized with the editor.

Preparing complex rich content for the local clipboard can take time. The clipboardDataTransferStart, clipboardDataTransferProgress, clipboardDataTransferComplete, and clipboardDataTransferAborted events provide the state used by this demo's progress indicator.