JavaScript : Select and Copy to clipboard

[Shimon Sim]

I need to create report that user wants to be able to copy from browser to
docs / e-mail and spreadsheet.
I was wondering is it possible to write a JavaScript that would copy part of
html to clipboard.

Thank you,
Shimon

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP - ASP.NET]]

nope, script cannot access the system clipboard. You can, however, wrap the
call in an ActiveX object to get around the permissions issue.

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Alvin Bruney - ASP.NET MVP

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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Shimon,

As Alvin has mentioned, basic clientside script can't do such things since
it 's very restricted and haven't permission to access most of the
clientside resources(such as file , registry, clipboard....). Using
ActiveX control is one approach , however it'll have security requirement
on the clientside which may make the web application somewhat tightly
coupled with clientside. How do you think of this?

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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