Copy text string on click

Use the Clipboard API!

The simplest modern solution is:

navigator.clipboard.writeText(value)

That value can later be accessed with:

navigator.clipboard.readText()

NOTE: To use in an iframe, you'll need to add write (and maybe read) permissions

<iframe src='' allow='clipboard-read; clipboard-write'/>

NOTE: To use in an browser extension (on a webpage), you'll need either to:

• call from a user triggered event (click...)
• add the 'clipboardWrite' permission to the manifest

NOTE: To use in the dev console, use copy() instead

copy('string')

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This is the Code pen.

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> 

<p style="color:wheat;font-size:55px;text-align:center;">How to copy a TEXT to Clipboard on a Button-Click</p>

<center>
<p id="p1">This is  TEXT 1</p>
<p id="p2">This is TEXT 2</p><br/>

<button onclick="copyToClipboard('#p1')">Copy TEXT 1</button>
<button onclick="copyToClipboard('#p2')">Copy TEXT 2</button>

<br/><br/><input class="textBox" type="text" id="" placeholder="Dont belive me?..TEST it here..;)" />
</center>

Jquery Code here

function copyToClipboard(element) {
  var $temp = $("<input>");
  $("body").append($temp);
  $temp.val($(element).text()).select();
  document.execCommand("copy");
  $temp.remove();
}

You can attach copy event to <span> element, use document.execCommand("copy") within event handler, set event.clipboardData to span .textContent with .setData() method of event.clipboardData

const span = document.querySelector("span");

span.onclick = function() {
  document.execCommand("copy");
}

span.addEventListener("copy", function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();
  if (event.clipboardData) {
    event.clipboardData.setData("text/plain", span.textContent);
    console.log(event.clipboardData.getData("text"))
  }
});

<span>text</span>

Try this .document.execCommand('copy')

1. click the element and copy the text and post with tmp input element
2. Then copy the text from this input

function copy(that){
var inp =document.createElement('input');
document.body.appendChild(inp)
inp.value =that.textContent
inp.select();
document.execCommand('copy',false);
inp.remove();
}

<p onclick="copy(this)">hello man</p>