JavaScript copy to clipboard not working

Question

I have a function in my script that gives me an error. The function purpose is to copy text from static panel(not textbox or input) with onClick event.

Uncaught

Answer 1

hi so I looked into it and since you are not using a textInput you cannot just use the .select()function. I borrowed some code from a fellow stack overflow developer Jason on how to highlight an item in javaScript

selecting text in an element akin to highlighting with your mouse.

function selectedText(element)(){

var doc = document,
text = doc.getElementById(element)
range, selection;

if(doc.body.createTextRange){ 
 range = document.body.createTextRange();
 range.moveToElementText(text);
 range.select(); 
}
else if(window.getSelection){
  selection = window.getSelection();
  range = document.createRange();
  range.selectNodeContents(text);
  selection.removeAllRanges();
  selection.addRange(range);   
}

return range;

I then modified it to return the range. and with that all you would have to do is

document.onclick = function(e){
  if(e.target.className === 'click'){

      var copytext = SelectText('display');
      document.execCommand("copy");
      alert("Copied the text: " + copytext);
   }
}

the key part here is that the string passed in to .execCommand() is lower case 'copy'