TinyMCE, CKEditor, and Froala allow you to copy-paste HTML tables (e.g. from an email or Wikipedia) directly into the HTML textarea
and the HTML table structure and tags are preserved.
For an additional example, my web-based email client can also do this. I can copy an HTML table from an email I received into an email I am sending, and the table structure will be preserved.
I understand that these editors are not just HTML textareas, rather they are rich text editors. My question: What browser capabilities allow for rich text editing? How do they do this?
From what I can tell, every time I copy-paste some HTML into a textarea
, the browser strips out all HTML tags.