How to copy to clipboard with GWT?

Question

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Does anyone know how to copy some text to the clipboard through GWT Java code? I\'d like to avoid the raw javas

Answer 1

Just wrap the provided answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/30810322/106261.

So, you pass in any text to a javascript native function/method, the js function creates a new element and copies to clipboard, and removes the element after copying.

No need for any libs with new browsers.

so :

public static native void copyTextToClipboard(String text) /*-{
        var textArea = document.createElement("textarea");
        //
        // *** This styling is an extra step which is likely not required. ***
        //
        // Why is it here? To ensure:
        // 1. the element is able to have focus and selection.
        // 2. if element was to flash render it has minimal visual impact.
        // 3. less flakyness with selection and copying which **might** occur if
        //    the textarea element is not visible.
        //
        // The likelihood is the element won't even render, not even a flash,
        // so some of these are just precautions. However in IE the element
        // is visible whilst the popup box asking the user for permission for
        // the web page to copy to the clipboard.
        //

        // Place in top-left corner of screen regardless of scroll position.
        textArea.style.position = 'fixed';
        textArea.style.top = 0;
        textArea.style.left = 0;

        // Ensure it has a small width and height. Setting to 1px / 1em
        // doesn't work as this gives a negative w/h on some browsers.
        textArea.style.width = '2em';
        textArea.style.height = '2em';

        // We don't need padding, reducing the size if it does flash render.
        textArea.style.padding = 0;

        // Clean up any borders.
        textArea.style.border = 'none';
        textArea.style.outline = 'none';
        textArea.style.boxShadow = 'none';

        // Avoid flash of white box if rendered for any reason.
        textArea.style.background = 'transparent';


        textArea.value = text;

        document.body.appendChild(textArea);

        textArea.select();

        try {
            var successful = document.execCommand('copy');
        } catch (err) {
            console.log('Unable to copy');
        }
        document.body.removeChild(textArea);
    }-*/;