How to copy the text of a textbox to clipboard? We can do it easily with JavaScript. It works nicely in Internet Explorer.
Please find a page with JavaScript to implement this.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="CopyToClipboard.aspx.cs"
Inherits="For_Blog.CopyToClipboard" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Copy to Clipboard</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function CopyToClipboard()
{
var controlValue = document.getElementById('<%=TextBox1.ClientID%>').value;
alert(controlValue);
window.clipboardData.setData('Text', controlValue);
alert('Copied text to clipboard : ' controlValue);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server"
Text="Copy Text Box Text to Clip board" OnClientClick="CopyToClipboard()" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
