Is it possible for the Paste Custom Text action to support pasting as HTML?
I have some HTML snippets that I'd like to paste into Jira WYSIWYG editors with a keyboard shortcut. The Jira WYSIWYG editor understands "Apple HTML pasteboard type" pasting (type determined from Clipboard Viewer Clipboard Viewer for Mac OS X) and then renders it correctly. However with plain text or RTF from the Paste Custom Text action, the markup is pasted as text rather than the resulting HTML.
You can try to copy the HTML text with AppleScript to the clipboard and then with CMD + V to the current application:
-- sample HTML
set theHTML to "<a href=\"https://community.folivora.ai/t/paste-custom-text-action-paste-as-html/23676\" target=\"_blank\">Paste Custom Text action: Paste as HTML</a>"
-- copy to clipboard
Pasteboard's copyHTMLtoClipboard(theHTML)
-- paste to current application
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down
script Pasteboard
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
property NSString : a reference to current application's NSString
property NSPasteboardTypeHTML : a reference to current application's NSPasteboardTypeHTML
property NSPasteboardTypeString : a reference to current application's NSPasteboardTypeString
on copyHTMLtoClipboard(someHTML)
set htmlString to NSString's stringWithString:someHTML
-- get pasteboard
set pb to current application's NSPasteboard's generalPasteboard()
pb's clearContents()
-- set the first object in the clipboard
pb's setString:htmlString forType:NSPasteboardTypeHTML
pb's setString:htmlString forType:NSPasteboardTypeString
end copyHTMLtoClipboard
end script
Tip: If the editor still recognizes plain text, then comment out this line:
