clipboard
The WebExtension clipboard
API (which is different from the standard Clipboard API) enables an extension to copy items to the system clipboard. Currently the WebExtension clipboard
API only supports copying images, but it's intended to support copying text and HTML in the future.
The WebExtension clipboard
API exists primarily because the standard Clipboard API doesn't support writing images to the clipboard. The WebExtension clipboard
API may be deprecated once the standard Clipboard API's support for non-text clipboard contents has entered general use.
Reading from the clipboard is not supported by this API, because the clipboard can already be read using the standard web platform APIs. See Interacting with the clipboard.
This API is based on Chrome's clipboard
API, but that API is only available for Chrome apps, not extensions.
To use this API you need the "clipboardWrite"
extension permission.
Functions
clipboard.setImageData()
-
Copy an image to the clipboard.
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
Note:
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.clipboard
API.