I am calling an API to fetch the data of an object. The object properties are as follows:
obj:{
name: "item",
index:1,
amount :20,
}
What I want is to simply copy the properties of this object (name, index, amount) to clipboard. How can I achieve this in React and javascript? Thanks in advance.
You can use Clipboard API and writeText function.
writeText accepts a string to write to clipboard. Here I use JSON.stringify to convert props object to string.
function App() {
return (
<div>
<p>Click button below and check contents of your clipboard</p>
<ClipboardButton index={1} name="item" amount={20} />
</div>
);
}
function ClipboardButton(props) {
function handleClick() {
navigator.clipboard.writeText(JSON.stringify(props));
}
return <button onClick={handleClick}>Copy to clipboard</button>;
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.6.3/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="root"></div>First, let create a function to clipboard something with Vanilla JS:
const copyToClipboard = (content) => {
const el = document.createElement("textarea");
el.value = content;
el.setAttribute("readonly", "");
el.style.position = "absolute";
el.style.left = "-9999px";
document.body.appendChild(el);
el.select();
el.setSelectionRange(0, 99999);
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(el);
alert("Copied the text: " + content);
};
Then lets create our handleClick function like this:
const handleClick = () => {
let exampleData = {
name: "item",
index: 1,
amount: 20
};
exampleData = JSON.stringify(exampleData);
copyToClipboard(exampleData);
};
And lets make a button to copy clipboard and add our handleClick method as an onClick prop;
<button onClick={handleClick}>Copy the data</button>
So here you go :)
Check these links to understand better;
How can I copy text to clipboard with JavaScript?