Javascript Copy Selected Text Box Select All Highlight Text Form Copy Paste


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Javascript Copy Selected Text Box Select All Highlight Text Form Copy Paste
javascript is cool for making things in your browser, here is an example script to show you how you can put this on your site so that you don't have to hit the control + c on you keyboard to copy and paste the selected text in web forms.
here is a demo:



here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Select Copy Text Into Clipboard History with Javascript</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
function copyit(theField) {
var selectedText = document.selection;
if (selectedText.type == 'Text') {
var newRange = selectedText.createRange();
theField.focus();
theField.value = newRange.text;
} else {
alert('Alert: Select The text in the textarea then click on this button');
}
}
// End -->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<p><strong>Select Copy Text Into Clipboard History with Javascript by Wallpaperama.com </strong></p>
<p><strong>Steps:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Hight the text inside the text area below</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Click on the form button, this will copy the text into your clipboard (basically the same as hitting control + c on your keyboard)</strong></p>
<form name="javascript">

<input onclick="copyit(this.form.text_select)" type="button" value="Click Here to Copy the Highlighted Text" name="copy_button">
<p>
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</textarea>
</form>
<div align="center">
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</div>
</body>
</html>



Try it on your website, you will like it

here is another way to select the content in a field with javascript: check it out

javascript select all text form button

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:: 1 :: #251 - Reply By ajax On Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:07 am
this isa good java script code to copy text into clipboard using javascript. ihave plent of Text Box Select All Highlight Text using this.select JavaScript - Dynamic options JavaScript - Get selection Dynamic options Page Details: Highlighted Text Web - Capturing Selected Text with JavaScript Using Javascript to add tags to selected text in textarea change selected text using button - Other languages Get Selected Text. Using JavaScript to Create a Powerful GUI Select Object Selected Text Replacement Selecting text function or method that returns selected Select Box Text Tags Text Effects get value of selected text access to selected text modifying Advanced JavaScript Editor highlighted text Detect selected text with JavaScript Getting the selected text
:: 2 :: #3346 - Reply By maker On Thu May 17, 2007 7:09 pm
thanks for this javascript copy form values clipboard
:: 3 :: #25637 - Reply By muthaiah On Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:17 pm
the above code is does not support in firefox browser.so how to use above code.
:: 4 :: #26354 - Reply By lion On Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:53 am
did not work on my end, using the latest ie.
:: 5 :: #31859 - Reply By ashley On Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:29 am
thank you
:: 6 :: #36502 - Reply By vishadev bhakta On Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:03 am
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:: 7 :: #36503 - Reply By vishadev bhakta On Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:04 am
without giving your full efforts to anything in your life, you can't justify your strengths and weakness....everybody lacks something in life....nobody is populated with each and every quality, a man should have? are really think like this.....so come forward, give upper hand to us...we will try to pull you for more details log on healthylivingpvtltd or e-mail to:enquiry at enbloc.biz (id no.393 )

:: 8 :: #43144 - Reply By Angai On Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:39 am
its good.

i want to apply bold to the selected part of text in a textbox control.
is it possible? if so plz help me in coding.
:: 9 :: #64315 - Reply By Carrie On Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:27 am
did not work for me either...
:: 10 :: #65585 - Reply By asd On Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:15 pm
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:: 11 :: #72903 - Reply By You On Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:25 am
this is dr.dre