I hit a strange problem. I have some images on the page that are displayed from the data URI, and I would like my users to copy them to the clipboard.
However, for some reason, neither Firefox nor Chrome allow me to do this.
Take this page as an example:
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Clipboard Test</title> </head> <body> <img id="target" 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</body> </html>
here if you want to try.
Right-clicking on the image and selecting “Copy Image” doesn't seem to work for Chrome, Firefox or IE11. However, right-clicking and “Save Image As ...” work.
Since it seems consistent across all browsers, I suggest that there should be a deliberate decision not to copy such images. Is this related to CORS - since the data URI has a different origin?
Is there anything I can do to copy these images?
This is based on the fact that I am trying to give users of my web application the ability to copy SVG images to the clipboard. I can convert SVG images to URIs of PNG data, which I can even save to a user computer, but I cannot upload them to the clipboard. If there are other / better ways to do this, please feel free to list them instead.
UPDATE It looks like this might be due to the recipient application, not the browser. After looking at the comments from @ Mi-Creativity, I re-tested using additional applications. Inserting such images into MS Paint seems to work, and pasting them into MS Office applications does not. Unfortunately, for me this is the main use case of my users.
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