How do you copy the html code of a link to the clipboard and parse it as a link in Lotus Notes?
For example, in Javascript put <a href='http://www.stackoverflow.com'>StackOverFlow</a> into clipboard, and then parse it as a link in Lotus Notes while writing a new email. It should only show a link as StackOverFlow in new message.
I found a function window.clipboardData.setData("Text",link), but it can only copy the text into clipboard.
Any tips for me?
window.clipboardData is an Internet Explorer only feature. Other browser vendors view meddling with the clipboard as a security threat and potentially really really annoying so it isn't implemented in Firefox, for example.
The only way I know to do it cross-browser is to use a Flash movie, and you can find out more about that here: http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/clipboard-copy/
If you're happy with supporting IE only, then the way to get the full outer HTML of an element (not just the innerHTML) would be to duplicate the link into another element and get the innerHTML of that element.
The javascript looks something like this (sorry, it's untested)
var newEl = myLink.cloneNode()
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.appendChild(newEl);
var outerHTML = div.innerHTML; // <-- this is the variable you want.
Thank you very much nickf ^^
I have tried your codes as following:
<a id="myLink" href="http://www.google.com">Google Site</a>
<input type="button" name="anniu1" onclick="copyUrl()" value="copy it">
<script language="javascript">
function copyUrl()
{
var newEl = myLink.cloneNode()
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.appendChild(newEl);
var outerHTML = div.innerHTML; // <-- this is the variable you want.
window.clipboardData.setData("Text",outerHTML);
}
</script>
I run it in a HTML file, but when I parse it in to Lotus Notes, it shows :
<a id="myLink" href="http://www.google.com">Google Site</a>
What I need is a real link like Google Site
To create a link in a Lotus Notes email you have to:
This is for Notes 7. Not sure if it was Notes 8 or 8.0.2 where they added a button on the toolbar to make it easy to do this.
Hope this helps
@Carlos has the basic user-level way to do it but it seems you want to do this programattically. I think the most effective approach is to have an action such as "paste link" that:
here's an example on how to get to the clipboard.
To import the link into notes, build a rudimentary HTML file from your action, along the lines of:
<html><body>
<a id="myLink" href="http://www.google.com">Google Site</a>
</body></html>
save it and then import it using code like:
dim ws as New NotesUIWorkspace
dim d as NotesUIDocument
set d = ws.currentDocument
call d.import( "HTML File", "c:\foo.html" )
(assuming you saved your file as "c:\foo.html").
Depending on what exactly you are trying to achieve and what you're most comfortable with, you may want to compose the HTML outside of Notes and just have the action do the import bit. If you take this approach then the need to play with the clipboard is gone.
Note the following: