Copy text into a clipboard with JavaScript and execCommand
npm install execcommand-copyCopy text to a user's clipboard using the modern execCommand interface.
This uses the same browser API - document.execCommand
as the much-hyped clipboard.js,
but doesn't involve itself in the DOM or event binding.
Detect whether a browser supports the execCommand interface
for copying text.
Returns boolean whether the browser support text
Copy a snippet of text to a user's pasteboard if the user has
proper browser support.
Parameters
- text string text snippet
Examples
``javascript``
// using browser events with a click
var eCopy = require('execcommand-copy');
var a = document.getElementById('mybutton');
a.addEventListener('click', function() {
eCopy.copy(this.innerHTML);
});
Returns boolean whether the text was copied