Copying to clipboard

[Butterfly Bill]

Is it possible, using javascript, to copy the current contents of a
text input box to the user's own computer's clipboard with a button or
a link?

-Bill

 

[VK]

Is it possible, using javascript, to copy the current contents of a
text input box to the user's own computer's clipboard with a button or
a link?

Cross-browser within the default security settings: no, it is not
possible.

 

[Evertjan.]

VK wrote on 29 okt 2009 in comp.lang.javascript:

Cross-browser within the default security settings: no, it is not
possible.

However IE still does not mind:

<script type='text/javascript'>

function copy(myText) {
if (window.clipboardData) {
window.clipboardData.setData('Text',myText);
};
};

copy('Hello world!');

</script>

 

[Butterfly Bill]

Cross-browser within the default security settings: no, it is not
possible.

Is it possible to make the document.forms.myname.value= data that
appears in the input window appear selected (with the black box around
it) so that the user can manually copy it?

 

[VK]

Is it possible to make the document.forms.myname.value= data that
appears in the input window appear selected (with the black box around
it) so that the user can manually copy it?

I'm afraid I didn't understand this sentence. Do you want to make a
page search tool like user typing in a word in a form field and the
occurrences of this word get selected in the page content? Something
else?

 

[Chuck Anderson]

Is it possible to make the document.forms.myname.value= data that
appears in the input window appear selected (with the black box around
it) so that the user can manually copy it?

I think you are looking for the select() function.

document.forms.myname.select();

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[Butterfly Bill]

I'm afraid I didn't understand this sentence. Do you want to make a
page search tool like user typing in a word in a form field and the
occurrences of this word get selected in the page content? Something
else?

I am making a nonsense word generator and I am displaying the results
in what is normally used as an form input text box, and I want to be
able to copy them into Notebook or a word processor program. Yes, I
can sweep my mouse over the box and press Ctrl+C, but I would also
like to be able to push a button on the page to select it.

 

[Butterfly Bill]

I am making a nonsense word generator and I am displaying the results
in what is normally used as an form input text box, and I want to be
able to copy them into Notebook or a word processor program. Yes, I
can sweep my mouse over the box and press Ctrl+C, but I would also
like to be able to push a button on the page to select it.

What worked was using:
document.getElementById("myText").select()

 

[Boris Schaeling]

Is it possible, using javascript, to copy the current contents of a
text input box to the user's own computer's clipboard with a button or
a link?

I happen to read about Zero Clipboard yesterday which uses an invisible
Flash object to copy data: http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/

Boris