Google Apps Script; Docs; convert selected element to HTML

Question

I am just starting with Google Apps Script and following the Add-on quickstart

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/quickstart/docs

In the quickstart yo

Answer 1

Ended up making a script to support my use-case of bold+links+italics:

function getHtmlOfElement(element) {
  var text = element.editAsText();
  var string = text.getText();
  var indices = text.getTextAttributeIndices();
  var output = [];

  for (var i = 0; i < indices.length; i++) {
    var offset = indices[i];
    var startPos = offset;
    var endPos = i+1 < indices.length ? indices[i+1]: string.length;
    var partText = string.substring(startPos, endPos);

    var isBold = text.isBold(offset);
    var isItalic = text.isItalic(offset);
    var linkUrl = text.getLinkUrl(offset);

    if (isBold) {
      output.push('');
    }
    if (isItalic) {
      output.push('');
    }
    if (linkUrl) {
      output.push('');
    }

    output.push(partText);

    if (isBold) {
      output.push('');
    }
    if (isItalic) {
      output.push('');
    }
    if (linkUrl) {
      output.push('');
    }
  }

  return output.join("");
}

You can simply call it using something like:

getHtmlOfElement(myTableCell); // returns something like "Bold test."