Pasting styled text from system clipboard

Question

In vim, how might a person paste styled text from the system clipboard rather than the plain-text?

For example, copying from a web browser and pasting in to a word processor typically results in styled text, including basic formatting (bold) and links, being pasted. How might a person copy from the browser in the same way but paste the original HTML representation of the text in to vim?

Answer 1

Temporary adding html to clipboard option should help:

set clipboard^=html
put +
set clipboard-=html

  html            When the clipboard contains HTML, use this when
                  pasting.  When putting text on the clipboard, mark it
                  as HTML.  This works to copy rendered HTML from
                  Firefox, paste it as raw HTML in Vim, select the HTML
                  in Vim and paste it in a rich edit box in Firefox.
                  You probably want to add this only temporarily,
                  possibly use BufEnter autocommands.
                  Only supported for GTK version 2 and later.
                  Only available with the |+multi_byte| feature.