What are some alternatives to document.execCommand to select and copy text?

Asked Aug 02 '20 at 16:53

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I have some code the uses the following lines:

document.execCommand('selectAll', false, null);
document.execCommand('copy', false, null);

And it works great. However, Mozilla has marked this command as obsolete. What is a better way of doing this, possibly with React or plain Javascript?

asked Aug 02 '20 at 16:53

Bryn

I have had luck with https://www.npmjs.com/package/clipboard-polyfill – Drew Reese Aug 02 '20 at 16:57
You can try https://www.npmjs.com/package/copy-to-clipboard. – Majid Amiri Aug 02 '20 at 17:14
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See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/write – Gabriele Petrioli Aug 03 '20 at 07:28

What are some alternatives to document.execCommand to select and copy text?

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