Copy Document as HTML
Plugin for Obsidian that copies the current document to the clipboard, so it can be pasted into HTML aware application like gmail.
This plugin exposes the Copy document as HTML: Copy the current document to clipboard command, which can be bound to a keyboard shortcut.
Features
Simple styling is applied to the document.
Currently working with :
- ✅ images
- ✅ plantuml
- ✅ diagrams
- ✅ obsidian-tasks
- ✅ obsidian-dataview - for large dataview blocks the content may not be complete
- ✅ Excalidraw - rendering as bitmap solves pasting in gmail
- ✅ Mermaid
Advanced
- You may choose whether you want to embed external links (http, https) or not. If you don't (default), you will need internet access to view the document, and the linked image may be taken offline. If you do your documents will be larger.
- It is possible to customize or replace the stylesheet in the settings dialog.
- The default is to convert SVG to bitmap for better compatibility at the cost of potential quality loss. If you know that you are pasting into an application with good .svg support, you can disable the
Convert SVG to bitmapsetting. - It is possible to render code and callouts to HTML tables. This makes them ugly except in Google Docs where they make the document slightly prettier.
Implementation
The plugin converts image references to data urls, so no references to the vault are included in the HTML.
Known issues
- No mobile support
- Special fields (double-colon attributes, ...) are not removed. (front-matter is)
- data-uris can use a lot of memory for big/many pictures
Install
Look for Copy document as HTML in the community plugin section in the Obsidian settings.
Don't be afraid to comment if anything seems wrong !
Development
Please see the Obsidian sample plugin.
Credits
- Oliver Balfour for his obsidian-pandoc plugin, which helped me solve some rendering issues.
- TfTHacker for his BRAT plugin which makes beta-testing a breeze.
- PJ Eby for his Hot-reload plugins which makes plugin development fast and fun.