Copy to clipboard without Flash

Question

I found many solutions for copying to the clipboard, but they all either with flash, or for websites side. I\'m looking for method copy to clipboard automatically, without f

Answer 1

I had tryed the flash solution and I don't liked too. Too complex and too slow. What I did was to create a textarea, put the data into that and use the browser "CTRL + C" behavior.

The jQuery javascript part:

// catch the "ctrl" combination keydown
$.ctrl = function(key, callback, args) {
    $(document).keydown(function(e) {
        if(!args) args=[]; // IE barks when args is null
        if(e.keyCode == key && e.ctrlKey) {
            callback.apply(this, args);
            return false;
        }
    });
};

// put your data on the textarea and select all
var performCopy = function() {
    var textArea = $("#textArea1");
    textArea.text('PUT THE TEXT TO COPY HERE. CAN BE A FUNCTION.');
    textArea[0].focus();
    textArea[0].select();
};

// bind CTRL + C
$.ctrl('C'.charCodeAt(0), performCopy);

The HTML part:

Now, put what do you want to copy in 'PUT THE TEXT TO COPY HERE. CAN BE A FUNCTION.' area. Works fine for me me. You just have to make one CTRL+C combination. The only drawback is that you are going to have an ugly textarea displayed in you site. If you use the style="display:none" the copy solution will not work.