Copy to clipboard without Flash

Question

I found many solutions for copying to the clipboard, but they all either with flash, or for websites side. I\'m looking for method copy to clipboard automatically, without f

Answer 1

You can use a clipboard local to the HTML page. This allows you to copy/cut/paste content WITHIN the HTML page, but not from/to third party applications or between two HTML pages.

This is how you can write a custom function to do this (tested in chrome and firefox):

Here is the FIDDLE that demonstrates how you can do this.

I will also paste the fiddle here for reference.

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HTML

<p id="textToCopy">This is the text to be copied</p>
<input id="inputNode" type="text" placeholder="Copied text will be pasted here" /> <br/>

<a href="#" onclick="cb.copy()">copy</a>
<a href="#" onclick="cb.cut()">cut</a>
<a href="#" onclick="cb.paste()">paste</a>

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JS

function Clipboard() {
    /* Here we're hardcoding the range of the copy
    and paste. Change to achieve desire behavior. You can
    get the range for a user selection using
    window.getSelection or document.selection on Opera*/
    this.oRange = document.createRange();
    var textNode = document.getElementById("textToCopy");
    var inputNode = document.getElementById("inputNode");
    this.oRange.setStart(textNode,0);
    this.oRange.setEndAfter(textNode);
    /* --------------------------------- */
}

Clipboard.prototype.copy = function() {
    this.oFragment= this.oRange.cloneContents();
};

Clipboard.prototype.cut = function() {
    this.oFragment = this.oRange.extractContents();
};

Clipboard.prototype.paste = function() {
    var cloneFragment=this.oFragment.cloneNode(true)
    inputNode.value = cloneFragment.textContent;
};

window.cb = new Clipboard();

Answer 2

document.execCommand('copy') will do what you want. But there was no directly usable examples in this thread without cruft, so here it is:

var textNode = document.querySelector('p').firstChild
var range = document.createRange()
var sel = window.getSelection()

range.setStart(textNode, 0)
range.setEndAfter(textNode)
sel.removeAllRanges()
sel.addRange(range)
document.execCommand('copy')