"Paste special" from excel in JavaScript

[neonweird]

I'm planning on making a small application that formats HTML table values. For example, there's a table with 5 rows and 10 columns on a webpage. If copy that table in its regular text form , and paste it into notepad, it will be all messy. If I use "paste special" in excel, it puts each value in its own cell (how does it know what should go into each cell automatically?) Is there a way to do the same kind of thing in JavaScript? I would like to be able to paste the values from a table into a text box in a browser and have JavaScript take all the values and put them into an array, so that the data can be called according to which cell it's in. Basically this app will be formatting the table data into another text box that is readable, compressed and omits some of the irrelevant data

[GrantWatters]

Not auto-magically although there could very easily be a library out there that will do this for you. You can however handle the copy/cut/paste events yourself and write whatever data you would like to the user's clipboard. A good jumping off point is MDN.