HTML5 alternative to flash-based ZeroClipboard for safe copying of data to clipboard?

Question

With flash on the way out in many environments (iPhone, Android, IE10, etc...), is there any new solution forthcoming in any browsers that will allow a safe copy of informat

Answer 1

You can look at this blog post for an in-depth discussion of how to work with the clipboard in HTML5. Unfortunately, you still can't portably copy to the clipboard on click. However, for chrome and firefox you can create a browser extension that can give your site permission to access the clipboard, and I believe IE will let you copy to the clipboard, but will prompt the user to grant permission.

Update:

According to this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand Firefox 41+, Chrome 42+, and IE 9+ support the copy command with execCommand. For firefox and chrome it will only work if triggered by a user action such as a click, and for IE it will give the user a warning dialog asking them for permission to copy to the clipboard.