From 9ea21305f5f2ee1400ecb5714f8d9881db654f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: igoradamenko <mail@igoradamenko.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 23:23:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] improve `copy` helper for copying text styles

---
 web/app/common/copy.js | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/web/app/common/copy.js b/web/app/common/copy.js
index eae7206d..3a352488 100644
--- a/web/app/common/copy.js
+++ b/web/app/common/copy.js
@@ -1,35 +1,49 @@
-// https://github.com/sindresorhus/copy-text-to-clipboard
+// based on https://github.com/sindresorhus/copy-text-to-clipboard, but improved to copy text styles too
 module.exports = input => {
-  const el = document.createElement('textarea');
+  const el = document.createElement('div');
 
-  el.value = input;
-
-  // Prevent keyboard from showing on mobile
-  el.setAttribute('readonly', '');
+  el.innerHTML = input;
 
   el.style.contain = 'strict';
   el.style.position = 'absolute';
   el.style.left = '-9999px';
   el.style.fontSize = '12pt'; // Prevent zooming on iOS
 
-  const selection = document.getSelection();
+  document.body.appendChild(el);
+
+  const currentSelection = document.getSelection();
   let originalRange = false;
-  if (selection.rangeCount > 0) {
-    originalRange = selection.getRangeAt(0);
+  if (currentSelection.rangeCount > 0) {
+    originalRange = currentSelection.getRangeAt(0);
   }
 
-  document.body.appendChild(el);
-  el.select();
+  let range, selection;
 
-  // Explicit selection workaround for iOS
-  el.selectionStart = 0;
-  el.selectionEnd = input.length;
+  if (document.body.createTextRange) {
+    range = document.body.createTextRange();
+    range.moveToElement(el);
+    range.select();
+  } else if (window.getSelection) {
+    selection = window.getSelection();
+
+    range = document.createRange();
+    range.selectNodeContents(el);
+
+    selection.removeAllRanges();
+    selection.addRange(range);
+  }
+
+  document.execCommand('copy');
 
   let success = false;
   try {
     success = document.execCommand('copy');
   } catch (err) {}
 
+  if (!document.body.createTextRange && window.getSelection) {
+    window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
+  }
+
   document.body.removeChild(el);
 
   if (originalRange) {