clipboard.js

A modern approach to copy & cut to the clipboard. No Flash. No dependencies. Just 1kb.

Install

You can get it using bower:

bower install clipboard --save

Or download as ZIP.

Usage

First, you need to instantiate it using a selector. This selector corresponds to the trigger element, usually a <button>.

new Clipboard('.btn');

The easiest way to copy some content to the clipboard, is to include a data-text attribute in your trigger element.

<button class="btn" data-text="Lorem ipsum">Copy</button>

Another way of doing it, is to copy the content from an another element. You can do that by adding a data-target attribute in your trigger element. The value you include on this attribute needs to match another's element id attribute.

<p id="foo">Lorem ipsum</p>
<button class="btn" data-target="foo">Copy</button>

Additionally, you can define a data-action attribute to specify if you want to either copy or cut content. If you omit this attribute, copy will be used.

<input id="foo" value="Lorem ipsum"></inpu>
<button class="btn" data-action="cut" data-target="foo">Copy</button>

As you may expect, the cut action only works on <input> or <textarea> elements.

Browser Support

This project relies on both Select API and execCommand API. When combined, they're supported in the following browsers.

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License

MIT License © Zeno Rocha