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Achayan
Achayan

Reputation: 5885

chrome selection text to keep formatting

I have a context menu, so when you selection some text from a page they can send to my extension. I am using 

var child1 = chrome.contextMenus.create(
    {"title": "Send To Box" , contexts:["selection"], "parentId": id, "id":"box", "contexts":[context], "onclick": sendToMyBox});

And in my sendToMyBox

function sendToMyBox(info, tab) 
{
  if (info.menuItemId == "box")
  {
    mainData = info.selectionText;
  }
}

So the issue is selectionText is missing all the formatting. What ever selected its coming as a single line text, is there anyway I can get the current format from the selected. Basically I want to keep all the new lines tabs, etc...

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 451

Answers (1)

Haibara Ai
Haibara Ai

Reputation: 10897

I think maybe you can get the html element first (you can achieve that by register a mouse event, then get event.target), then use 

element.innerHTML

to get the rich text.

Upvotes: 3

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