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How do I copy text to the clipboard with partial italics?

How do I make it so that txtTitleofWebpage.Text is in italics when copied to the Clipboard so that the user can copy the references into a Microsoft Word document? I'm trying to make a Windows Form Application using C# to generate Harvard References from information the user inputs into a form.

Here is the code:

Clipboard.SetText(wholeName + ", (" + yOPDate + ") " + txtTitleofWebpage.Text + 
                  " [online]. Available from: " + txtURLWeb.Text + " [Accessed: " + 
                  accessDateWeb.Value.ToShortDateString() + "].", TextDataFormat.Rtf);
Solution

  • It seems you have to insert a 'header' in the html string, I found 2 examples for this:

    This works with Word:
    Example code: 

        Clipboard.SetText(@"Version:1.0
                        StartHTML:000125
                        EndHTML:000260
                        StartFragment:000209
                        EndFragment:000222
                        <HTML>
                        <head>
                        <title>HTML clipboard</title>
                        </head>
                        <body>
                        <!–StartFragment–><b>Hello!</b><!–EndFragment–>
                        </body>
                        </html>", 
                        TextDataFormat.Html);

    This copies a Hello! to your clipboard, you have to change the fragments based on the size I think so I don't know exactly how that would work with a dynamic string but I hope this will get you started. 666

    If you can also use RTF 

    Clipboard.SetText(@"{\rtf1\ansi This is in \i\f0\fs17 italic\i0.}",
                    TextDataFormat.Rtf);

    Example with string 

    var q = "test123";
Clipboard.SetText(@"{\rtf1\ansi This is in \i\f0\fs17 " + q + @"\i0.}",
                    TextDataFormat.Rtf);

    or

    var q = "test123";
Clipboard.SetText( $@"{\rtf1\ansi This is in \i\f0\fs17 {q}\i0.}",
                    TextDataFormat.Rtf);

    Note the @ before the 2nd part of the string, if you need to escape certain characters (you will need that with RTF) add @ in front of each opening ".

    This seems to be a lot easier because you don't have to insert the header but the formatting itself is abit more complicated imo.