How to copy both - HTML and text to the clipboard?

Question

I\'m trying to put in the clipboard piece of HTML and plain text at the same time, so that HTML-capable editors could paste HTML, and other editors could use plain text.

Answer 1

You can NOT use Clipboard.SetData for setting both HTML and plain text. The second call of SetData will clear the content of clipboard that has been set by first call and store the new data.

You should use DataObject and Clipboard.SetDataObject().

Example:

DataObject dataObj = new DataObject();
dataObj.SetData(DataFormats.Html, htmlWithHeader);
dataObj.SetData(DataFormats.Text, plainText);

Clipboard.SetDataObject(dataObj);