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Documentation about the DataFormats.Html field is in the wrong repo

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Description

The documentation for the Clipboard class' data formats includes information about the [DataFormats.Html](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.dataformats.html?view=net-5.0) field. This page does not contain details of the required format of the HTML; instead, it links to a pre-existing page in the **Remarks** section (see [https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/3c367d244e5d6df445c095410037b186f7076177/xml/System.Windows.Forms/DataFormats.xml#L506](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/3c367d244e5d6df445c095410037b186f7076177/xml/System.Windows.Forms/DataFormats.xml#L506)).

However, the [target page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/platform-apis/aa767917(v=vs.85)) is currently located within the documentation for Internet Explorer and therefore flagged as _'no longer being updated'_. It therefore risks being lost as the IE documentation becomes more out-of-date and/or potentially made unavailable.

As this information is broadly relevant to Windows applications in general, and is not specific to Internet Explorer, it would be more appropriate if the article were moved/duplicated in this section of the docs (the clipboard format is a subset of HTML so quite specific to this topic).

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