iOS: How to copy HTML into the cut-paste buffer?

Question

I\'m interested in letting my users copy the text they\'ve entered into the cut-and-paste buffer, but I\'d like to do that as HTML.

Is such a thing even possible? O

Answer 1

This solution puts both a HTML and a plain text representation into the pasteboard:

#import 

NSString *html = @"
Headline
text";
NSData *data =  [html dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *dict = @{@"WebMainResource": @{@"WebResourceData": data, @"WebResourceFrameName": @"", @"WebResourceMIMEType": @"text/html", @"WebResourceTextEncodingName": @"UTF-8", @"WebResourceURL": @"about:blank"}};
data = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList:dict format:NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0 options:0 error:nil];
NSString *archive = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *plain = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfRegex:@"<[^>]+>" withString:@""];
[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard].items = @[@{@"Apple Web Archive pasteboard type": archive, (id)kUTTypeUTF8PlainText: plain}];

It uses -stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfRegex: from RegexKitLite to strip the HTML tags.