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Given this HTML:

<html>
<body>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Copy This Text</td>
    <td><button type="button">Copy</button></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

When the user clicks on that button, how can I copy the the text from first TD tag to clipboard?

Bharata
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The first way: 

$(document).ready(function(){
   $("button").click(function(){
      $("td").append($("td").html());
   });
});

and you should remove the second <td> and put button outside

<button type="button">Copy</button>
Jon P
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Daniel Nuevo
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You can use the following code for jQuery:

function copyText(obj) 
{
    var tmpInput = $("<input>");
    $("body").append(tmpInput);
    var tdVal = $(obj).parent().prev().text();
    tmpInput.val(tdVal).select();
    document.execCommand("copy");
    tmpInput.remove();
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Copy This Text</td>
    <td><button onclick="copyText(this)">Copy</button></td>
  </tr>
</table>
Bharata
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  • This answer would be more useful for inexperienced coders if explained what your code does. Some comments in the code would be useful as would a brief summary of what you are doing. I know why you add an input, but it may not be obvious to others. – Jon P Sep 04 '18 at 22:58