fix: copy string values without JSON quotes by Falsen · Pull Request #195 · microlinkhq/react-json-view

Falsen · 2026-08-19T11:53:19Z

The problem

Clicking the clipboard icon on a string value copies "my value" — quotes included — because handleCopy runs every node through JSON.stringify:

const textToCopy = JSON.stringify(this.clipboardValue(src), null, '  ')

For object and array nodes that is exactly right, and numbers and booleans are unaffected (5, true), but a leaf string's JSON form is a quoted string literal, so the quotes end up on the clipboard and have to be removed by hand after pasting.

Originally reported in mac-s-g/react-json-view#217 and mac-s-g/react-json-view#167.

The workaround people are pointed to is to re-copy the value from the enableClipboard callback. That is no longer reliable: the callback runs after handleCopy has already written, and in browsers that permit a single clipboard write per user gesture the second write is rejected with NotAllowedError, leaving the quoted value on the clipboard.

The change

clipboardText copies a value that is already text verbatim, and keeps JSON.stringify for everything else:

node	before	after
string	`"my value"`	`my value`
function / regexp	JSON-escaped one-liner	source text (they are already passed through `toString()` by `clipboardValue`)
object, array, number, boolean, null	unchanged	unchanged

Tests covering each case are added to test/tests/js/components/CopyToClipboard-test.js; the suite passes (200 tests), and the two new string/function cases fail against master without the source change.

Happy to rework this if you would rather have it behind a prop, or expose the text through a return value from the enableClipboard callback instead.

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- Copying text now preserves string values exactly.
- Non-string values are consistently formatted for clipboard use, including objects, arrays, numbers, booleans, null values, functions, and regular expressions.
Tests
- Added coverage for copying and formatting multiple value types.
- Added clipboard interaction tests to verify the text written during copy actions.

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The clipboard component now preserves string values and JSON-formats non-string values. Tests mock clipboard writes and verify serialization for supported value types.

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Type-aware clipboard serialization and tests `src/js/components/CopyToClipboard.js`, `test/tests/js/components/CopyToClipboard-test.js`	`handleCopy` uses `clipboardText`. Strings remain unchanged, while other values use two-space JSON formatting. Tests capture clipboard writes and verify strings, objects, arrays, numbers, booleans, null, functions, and regular expressions.

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The PR fixes quoted string clipboard output, but its new tests can interfere with later tests by not restoring the existing clipboard implementation; the PR is otherwise mergeable with this minor test-isolation follow-up.

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Copying a string node put its JSON representation on the clipboard, so `my value` was pasted as `"my value"`. Values that are already text are now copied verbatim; objects, arrays, numbers and booleans keep their JSON representation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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