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Javascript Copy To Clipboard

This script is pretty self explanatory. Pass a string to the copyToClipboard function and it will be placed into the clipboard so you can paste it into other programs.

The Script And An Example

I've put the script into the text area below to make it easy to get. Just click the 'Copy To Clipboard' button and the contents of the text area below will be sent to the clipboard.

function copyToClipboard(s) { if( window.clipboardData && clipboardData.setData ) { clipboardData.setData("Text", s); } else { // You have to sign the code to enable this or allow the action in about:config by changing user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true); netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect'); var clip Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/clipboard;[[[[1]]]]'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard); if (!clip) return; // create a transferable var trans = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/transferable;[[[[1]]]]'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable); if (!trans) return; // specify the data we wish to handle. Plaintext in this case. trans.addDataFlavor('text/unicode'); // To get the data from the transferable we need two new objects var str = new Object(); var len = new Object(); var str = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/supports-string;[[[[1]]]]"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsString); var copytext=meintext; str.data=copytext; trans.setTransferData("text/unicode",str,copytext.length*[[[[2]]]]); var clipid=Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard; if (!clip) return false; clip.setData(trans,null,clipid.kGlobalClipboard); } }
Copy To Clipboard

The code

The code for the example above looks like...

Permissions

Mozilla based browsers will ask the user for permission before allowing this script to access the clipboard.

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