How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and make it HTML?

I found some nice solutions here on how to copy text in JavaScript to the clipboard in: How do I开发者_Go百科 copy to the clipboard in JavaScript?

But is there any way to give it a type? Want I want is to paste to clipboard something like:

this is < b >bold< /b >

and when pasting it into OpenOffice or Word, get

this is bold

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You could just manipulate the string the user selects before sending it to the clipboard. Refer the answer for this question which shows how a string manipulation could be done before copying it to the clipboard.