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Hello,

I have a textbox and a button.
When I click on the button I want to copy the textbox value so that I can paste it to anywhere.

Can anyone tell me how to do that using javascript?

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IE

FF + here
 
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Although Valentin Crettaz, your code supports only Internet Explorer and Not FireFox........

Here is a better solution and its working for any browser:

<script>
function cSn(sn, el)
{
if (window.clipboardData) {
window.clipboardData.setData("Text",sn);
} else {
var flashcopier = 'flashcopier';
if(!document.getElementById(flashcopier)) {
var divholder = document.createElement('div');
divholder.id = flashcopier;
document.body.appendChild(divholder);
}
document.getElementById(flashcopier).innerHTML = '';
var divinfo = '<embed src="snippetty.swf" FlashVars="clipboard='+escape(sn)+'" width="0" height="0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>';
document.getElementById(flashcopier).innerHTML = divinfo;
}
}

</script>





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The links contain both a solution for IE and FF.

Your code, however, won't work if Flash is not available or cannot be installed for security reasons (i.e., in highly secure intranets!)
 
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The JavaScript solutions normally do not work now with the newer versions of browsers because the copy,paste can be diabled. This question has come up a lot lately on other forums.

So if the option is not enabled in the browser and flash is disabled, people are stuck using their own fingers to right click or ctrl-c.

Eric
[ September 28, 2007: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]
 
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