Copy variable value to clipboard

RobColborne · Jul 25, 2005

Hi

I was looking at an earlier thread that will copy a textbox contents to clipboard, but what I would like to do is copy a variable value to clipboard. How can this be done.

The script from the earlier post is as follows:

[script]
<html><body>
<form name="display">

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function toClipBoard(id){
r = document.getElementById(id).createTextRange();
r.select();
r.execCommand("COPY");
}
val="XYZ"
document.writeln("<input name='txt' id='fld' type='text' size='72' readonly value="+val+" />");
toClipBoard('fld')
</script>

</form></body></html>
[/script]

tsuji · Jul 25, 2005

If you want hard enough to do that and to do with the same spirit as you had advised. This is how you do it.
[tt]
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function toClipBoard(id){
r = document.getElementById(id).createTextRange();
r.select();
r.execCommand("COPY");
}
function copyit(x) {
var oelem=document.createElement("input");
with (oelem) {
id="fld";
name="txt";
type="text"
//style.size="72"; //ie only from the beginning already
//readOnly=true //not essential
value=x;
}
document.forms["display"].appendChild(oelem);
toClipBoard(oelem.id);
document.forms["display"].removeChild(oelem);
oelem=null;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="display">
<input type="text" name="abc" value="xyz" />
</form>
<div>Click the button below will copy the input text box value to Clipboard. Thd functionality is supported by ie only.</div>
<button onclick="copyit(document.display.abc.value)">Click to copy</button>
</body>
</html>
[/tt]
As a side note: you can use a less intrusive method as shown here to do the original functionality of putting a fixed string to clipboard.

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Copy variable value to clipboard

RobColborne

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tsuji

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