Bug 179439

Summary:	event.clipboardData.setData // event.clipboardData.getData not functioning on iOS Safari
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Kasper Nilsson <kaspern>
Component:	New Bugs	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	rniwa, wenson_hsieh
Priority:	P2
Version:	Other
Hardware:	iPhone / iPad
OS:	iOS 10.3

Description Kasper Nilsson 2017-11-08 12:50:35 PST

Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/kamxex2q/4/

Repro steps: 
1. Open fiddle on iOS Safari
2. Try to copy the bolded 'bar' text
3. Observe the empty string returned by 'getData' in the console
3.5 Try to paste the copied text, and notice that no paste option is available

Some additional context from our product's bug tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=7099

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with!

Comment 1 Wenson Hsieh 2017-11-09 16:09:26 PST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176980 ***

Comment 2 Kasper Nilsson 2017-11-09 16:13:11 PST

When can we expect to see this downstream on iOS?

Comment 3 Ryosuke Niwa 2017-11-09 16:17:44 PST

(In reply to Kasper Nilsson from comment #2)
> When can we expect to see this downstream on iOS?

You can build WebKit for iOS simulator and test it yourself.

As a general rule, Apple doesn't not comment on when or if a certain bug fix or a feature will be released in any product.