Selecting & Copying Text from a Textbox to Clipboard 1

[mark929]

I am creating a form that collects text from various inputs; checkboxes, Dropdown Lists, etc, and puts it all in one Textbox.

I would like to put a "Select All" button and a "Copy" button on the same form to allow users to select and copy all the text in the Textbox1 to the clipboard. Even better, would be one button to do both. The copied text would then be "Pasted" into a separate application. This is a convenience thing, and would eliminate the user having to RightClick/SelectAll and RightClick/Copy.

Can anyone get me started on the code behind the button, or point me to somewhere I could research it. I'm new to ASP/VB.Net and nothing I have tried so far has worked.

Thanks

Mark Roberts

 

[checkai]

This will do it for one field I know, Maybe you can go with it from there...

javascript:
function HighlightAll(theField) {
var tempval=eval("document."+theField)
tempval.focus()
tempval.select()
if (document.all&&copytoclip==1){
therange=tempval.createTextRange()
therange.execCommand("Copy")
}
}
code behind:
Me.cmdCopy.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "javascript:HighlightAll('Timer.txtTotalTime')")

 

[mark929]

Thanks Checkai, I'll give this a try.

Mark