Angular 5 - Copy to clipboard

Question

I am trying to implement an icon that when clicked will save a variable to the user\'s clipboard. I have currently tried several libraries and none of them have been able to

Answer 1

As of Angular Material v9, it now has a clipboard CDK

Clipboard | Angular Material

It can be used as simply as

<button [cdkCopyToClipboard]="This goes to Clipboard">Copy this</button>

Answer 2

Solution 1: Copy any text

HTML

<button (click)="copyMessage('This goes to Clipboard')" value="click to copy" >Copy this</button>

.ts file

copyMessage(val: string){
    const selBox = document.createElement('textarea');
    selBox.style.position = 'fixed';
    selBox.style.left = '0';
    selBox.style.top = '0';
    selBox.style.opacity = '0';
    selBox.value = val;
    document.body.appendChild(selBox);
    selBox.focus();
    selBox.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    document.body.removeChild(selBox);
  }

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Solution 2: Copy from a TextBox

HTML

 <input type="text" value="User input Text to copy" #userinput>
      <button (click)="copyInputMessage(userinput)" value="click to copy" >Copy from Textbox</button>

.ts file

    /* To copy Text from Textbox */
  copyInputMessage(inputElement){
    inputElement.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    inputElement.setSelectionRange(0, 0);
  }

Demo Here

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Solution 3: Import a 3rd party directive ngx-clipboard

<button class="btn btn-default" type="button" ngxClipboard [cbContent]="Text to be copied">copy</button>

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Solution 4: Custom Directive

If you prefer using a custom directive, Check Dan Dohotaru's answer which is an elegant solution implemented using ClipboardEvent.

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Solution 5: Angular Material

Angular material 9 + users can utilize the built-in clipboard feature to copy text. There are a few more customization available such as limiting the number of attempts to copy data.

Answer 3

Below method can be used for copying the message:-

export function copyTextAreaToClipBoard(message: string) {
  const cleanText = message.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, '');
  const x = document.createElement('TEXTAREA') as HTMLTextAreaElement;
  x.value = cleanText;
  document.body.appendChild(x);
  x.select();
  document.execCommand('copy');
  document.body.removeChild(x);
}

Answer 4

You can achieve this using Angular modules:

navigator.clipboard.writeText('your text').then().catch(e => console.error(e));

Answer 5

Copy using angular cdk,

Module.ts

import {ClipboardModule} from '@angular/cdk/clipboard';

Programmatically copy a string: MyComponent.ts,

class MyComponent {
  constructor(private clipboard: Clipboard) {}

  copyHeroName() {
    this.clipboard.copy('Alphonso');
  }
}

Click an element to copy via HTML:

<button [cdkCopyToClipboard]="longText" [cdkCopyToClipboardAttempts]="2">Copy text</button>

Reference: https://material.angular.io/cdk/clipboard/overview

Answer 6

I think this is a much more cleaner solution when copying text:

copyToClipboard(item) {
    document.addEventListener('copy', (e: ClipboardEvent) => {
      e.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', (item));
      e.preventDefault();
      document.removeEventListener('copy', null);
    });
    document.execCommand('copy');
  }

And then just call copyToClipboard on click event in html. (click)="copyToClipboard('texttocopy')"