A touch-sensitive electronic device includes a touch screen receiving and responding to touch operations, and obtaining the location of the touch operations; a display; a memory; and a processing unit, to run a program to activate a clipping module. When the clipping module is activated, the device enters into a clipping mode. In the clipping mode, an image is formed which is the same as the content displayed on the display. The clipping module includes a detection sub-module to detect the touch operations on the formed image in the clipping mode to determine a track of the touch operations. An obtaining sub-module determines a desired area enclosed by the track on the formed image, and obtains the content in the desired area as the object to be clipped; and a storing sub-module stores the object to be clipped in the memory. A clipping method is also provided.