Click button copy to clipboard using jQuery

Question

How do I copy the text inside a div to the clipboard? I have a div and need to add a link which will add the text to the clipboard. Is there a solution for this?

Answer 1

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
If you don't want the text-to-be-coppied to be visible:

jQuery:

$('button.copyButton').click(function(){
    $(this).siblings('input.linkToCopy').select();      
    document.execCommand("copy");
});

HTML:

<button class="copyButton">click here to copy</button>
<input class="linkToCopy" value="TEXT TO COPY"
style="position: absolute; z-index: -999; opacity: 0;" />

Answer 2

you can copy an individual text apart from an HTML element's text.

        var copyToClipboard = function (text) {
            var $txt = $('<textarea />');

            $txt.val(text)
                .css({ width: "1px", height: "1px" })
                .appendTo('body');

            $txt.select();

            if (document.execCommand('copy')) {
                $txt.remove();
            }
        };

Answer 3

The text to copy is in text input,like: <input type="text" id="copyText" name="copyText"> and, on button click above text should get copied to clipboard,so button is like:<button type="submit" id="copy_button" data-clipboard-target='copyText'>Copy</button> Your script should be like:

<script language="JavaScript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var clip = new ZeroClipboard($("#copy_button"), {
  moviePath: "ZeroClipboard.swf"
}); 
});

</script>

For CDN files

• (zeroclipboard.swf):
• (zeroclipboard.js):

note: ZeroClipboard.swf and ZeroClipboard.js" file should be in the same folder as your file using this functionality is, OR you have to include like we include <script src=""></script> on our pages.

Answer 4

you can just using this lib for easy realize the copy goal!

https://clipboardjs.com/

Copying text to the clipboard shouldn't be hard. It shouldn't require dozens of steps to configure or hundreds of KBs to load. But most of all, it shouldn't depend on Flash or any bloated framework.

That's why clipboard.js exists.

or

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard

http://zeroclipboard.org/

The ZeroClipboard library provides an easy way to copy text to the clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie and a JavaScript interface.

Answer 5

With Line Breaks (Extention of the Answer from Alvaro Montoro)

var ClipboardHelper = {

    copyElement: function ($element)
    {
       this.copyText($element.text())
    },
    copyText:function(text) // Linebreaks with \n
    {
        var $tempInput =  $("<textarea>");
        $("body").append($tempInput);
        $tempInput.val(text).select();
        document.execCommand("copy");
        $tempInput.remove();
    }
};

ClipboardHelper.copyText('Hello\nWorld');
ClipboardHelper.copyElement($('body h1').first());

Answer 6

Even better approach without flash or any other requirements is clipboard.js. All you need to do is add data-clipboard-target="#toCopyElement" on any button, initialize it new Clipboard('.btn'); and it will copy the content of DOM with id toCopyElement to clipboard. This is a snippet that copy the text provided in your question via a link.

One limitation though is that it does not work on safari, but it works on all other browser including mobile browsers as it does not use flash

$(function(){
  new Clipboard('.copy-text');
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/clipboard.js/1.5.12/clipboard.min.js"></script>

<p id="content">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s</p>

<a class="copy-text" data-clipboard-target="#content" href="#">copy Text</a>