how to get clipboard data in angular JS

Question

I was actually looking to get the content of clipboard using angular JS to simulate a copy paste thing.

Answer 1

BTW, if using Angular to copy to clipboard with a Chrome Packaged App, do the following:

1. Add "clipboardRead" and "clipboardWrite" to the "permissions" in the manifest.json.
2. use ng-click in your view to feed the value to the controller $scope, like: data-ng-click="copyUrlToClipboard(file.webContentLink)"

3. Put a function in your controller like:

   $scope.copyUrlToClipboard =  function(url) {
       var copyFrom = document.createElement("textarea");
       copyFrom.textContent = url;
       var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
       body.appendChild(copyFrom);
       copyFrom.select();
       document.execCommand('copy');
       body.removeChild(copyFrom);
       this.flashMessage('over5');
   }