HTML5 alternative to flash-based ZeroClipboard for safe copying of data to clipboard?-open source projects zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard

Beau Bouchard

The reasoning is that automatic copying to clipboard can be very dangerous, thus most browsers (except IE)* make it difficult unless you use flash.

Much like your ZeroClipboard, there is Clipboard LMCButton which also uses a small flash script running in the background.

A common solution would be to do this:

 function copyToClipboard (text) {
     window.prompt ("Copy to clipboard: Ctrl+C, Enter", text);
 }

Which I found from Jarek Milewski when some one else asked the question here

*Yes I found one solution for IE, however does not work in most modern browsers, check here.