In reactJS, how to copy text to clipboard?

Question

I\'m using ReactJS and when a user clicks a link I want to copy some text to the clipboard.

I am using Chrome 52 and I do not need to support any other browsers.

Answer 1

use this command to pass your value to the function

var promise = navigator.clipboard.writeText(newClipText)

Answer 2

If you want to select from the DIV instead of the text field, here is the code. The "code" is the value that has to be copied

import React from 'react'
class CopyToClipboard extends React.Component {

  copyToClipboard(code) {
    var textField = document.createElement('textarea')
    textField.innerText = code
    document.body.appendChild(textField)
    textField.select()
    document.execCommand('copy')
    textField.remove()
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <div onClick={this.copyToClipboard.bind(this, code)}>
        {code}
      </div>

    )
  }
}

export default CopyToClipboard

Answer 3

You can also use react hooks into function components or stateless components with this piece of code: PS: Make sure you install useClippy through npm/yarn with this command: npm install use-clippy or yarn add use-clippy

import React from 'react';
import useClippy from 'use-clippy';

export default function YourComponent() {

// clipboard is the contents of the user's clipboard.
  // setClipboard('new value') wil set the contents of the user's clipboard.

  const [clipboard, setClipboard] = useClippy();

  return (
    <div>

      {/* Button that demonstrates reading the clipboard. */}
      <button
        onClick={() => {
          alert(`Your clipboard contains: ${clipboard}`);
        }}
      >
        Read my clipboard
      </button>

      {/* Button that demonstrates writing to the clipboard. */}
      <button
        onClick={() => {
          setClipboard(`Random number: ${Math.random()}`);
        }}
      >
        Copy something
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Answer 4

import React, { Component } from 'react';

export default class CopyTextOnClick extends Component {
    copyText = () => {
        this.refs.input.select();

        document.execCommand('copy');

        return false;
    }

    render () {
        const { text } = this.state;

        return (
            <button onClick={ this.copyText }>
                { text }

                <input
                    ref="input"
                    type="text"
                    defaultValue={ text }
                    style={{ position: 'fixed', top: '-1000px' }} />
            </button>
        )
    }
}

Answer 5

I personally don't see the need for a library for this. Looking at http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard it's pretty widely supported now, however you can still do things like checking to see if the functionality exists in the current client and simply hide the copy button if it doesn't.

import React from 'react';

class CopyExample extends React.Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = { copySuccess: '' }
  }

  copyToClipboard = (e) => {
    this.textArea.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    // This is just personal preference.
    // I prefer to not show the whole text area selected.
    e.target.focus();
    this.setState({ copySuccess: 'Copied!' });
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {
         /* Logical shortcut for only displaying the 
            button if the copy command exists */
         document.queryCommandSupported('copy') &&
          <div>
            <button onClick={this.copyToClipboard}>Copy</button> 
            {this.state.copySuccess}
          </div>
        }
        <form>
          <textarea
            ref={(textarea) => this.textArea = textarea}
            value='Some text to copy'
          />
        </form>
      </div>
    );
  }

}
    
export default CopyExample;

Update: Rewritten using React Hooks in React 16.7.0-alpha.0

import React, { useRef, useState } from 'react';

export default function CopyExample() {

  const [copySuccess, setCopySuccess] = useState('');
  const textAreaRef = useRef(null);

  function copyToClipboard(e) {
    textAreaRef.current.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    // This is just personal preference.
    // I prefer to not show the whole text area selected.
    e.target.focus();
    setCopySuccess('Copied!');
  };

  return (
    <div>
      {
       /* Logical shortcut for only displaying the 
          button if the copy command exists */
       document.queryCommandSupported('copy') &&
        <div>
          <button onClick={copyToClipboard}>Copy</button> 
          {copySuccess}
        </div>
      }
      <form>
        <textarea
          ref={textAreaRef}
          value='Some text to copy'
        />
      </form>
    </div>
  );
}

Answer 6

The simplest way will be use the react-copy-to-clipboard npm package.

You can install it with the following command

npm install --save react react-copy-to-clipboard

Use it in the following manner.

const App = React.createClass({
  getInitialState() {
    return {value: '', copied: false};
  },


  onChange({target: {value}}) {
    this.setState({value, copied: false});
  },


  onCopy() {
    this.setState({copied: true});
  },


  render() {
    return (
      <div>

          <input value={this.state.value} size={10} onChange={this.onChange} />

        <CopyToClipboard text={this.state.value} onCopy={this.onCopy}>
          <button>Copy</button>
        </CopyToClipboard>

                <div>
        {this.state.copied ? <span >Copied.</span> : null}
                </div>
        <br />

        <input type="text" />

      </div>
    );
  }
});

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('container'));

A detailed explanation is provided at the following link

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-copy-to-clipboard

Here is a running fiddle.