Asynchronous Clipboard API

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 66)
Intent stage: None

Summary

A modern, asynchronous Clipboard API based on Promises. Text-only APIs (clipboard.readText and clipboard.writeText): * Behind a flag in M62 * Enabled by default in M66 Support for images and other data types is still under development.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: Positive
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=677564

Docs: https://web.dev/async-clipboard/

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/async-clipboard/

Explainers: https://github.com/w3c/clipboard-apis/blob/master/explainer.adoc

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