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

Found best way to do it. i mean the fastest way: w3school

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_copy_clipboard.asp

Inside a react functional component. Create a function named handleCopy:

function handleCopy() {
  // get the input Element ID. Save the reference into copyText
  var copyText = document.getElementById("mail")
  // select() will select all data from this input field filled  
  copyText.select()
  copyText.setSelectionRange(0, 99999)
  // execCommand() works just fine except IE 8. as w3schools mention
  document.execCommand("copy")
  // alert the copied value from text input
  alert(`Email copied: ${copyText.value} `)
}

<>
              
              Copy email

If not using React, w3schools also have one cool way to do this with tooltip included: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryit.asp?filename=tryhow_js_copy_clipboard2

If using React, a cool think to do: Use a Toastify to alert the message. https://github.com/fkhadra/react-toastify This is the lib very easy to use. After installation, you may be able to change this line:

 alert(`Email copied: ${copyText.value} `)

For something like:

toast.success(`Email Copied: ${copyText.value} `)

If you want to use it, dont forget to Install toastify. import ToastContainer and also toasts css:

import { ToastContainer, toast } from "react-toastify"
import "react-toastify/dist/ReactToastify.css"

and add the toast container inside return.

import React from "react"

import { ToastContainer, toast } from "react-toastify"
import "react-toastify/dist/ReactToastify.css"


export default function Exemple() {
  function handleCopy() {
    var copyText = document.getElementById("mail")
    copyText.select()
    copyText.setSelectionRange(0, 99999)
    document.execCommand("copy")
    toast.success(`Hi! Now you can: ctrl+v: ${copyText.value} `)
  }

  return (
    <>
      
      
                E-mail
              
              Copy Email
      
    
  )
}