In reactJS, how to copy text to clipboard?

Question

I\'m using ReactJS and when a user clicks a link I want to copy some text to the clipboard.

I am using Chrome 52 and I do not need to support any other browsers.

Answer 1

If you want to select from the DIV instead of the text field, here is the code. The "code" is the value that has to be copied

import React from 'react'
class CopyToClipboard extends React.Component {

  copyToClipboard(code) {
    var textField = document.createElement('textarea')
    textField.innerText = code
    document.body.appendChild(textField)
    textField.select()
    document.execCommand('copy')
    textField.remove()
  }
  render() {
    return (
      

        {code}
      

    )
  }
}

export default CopyToClipboard