How to create copy button using html and javascript?

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Hii am new to javascript but by putting my all efforts I have written a javascript to copy text inside a <p></p> elements. In my website I need the copy button many times. But my javascript work for only one copy button. if I used it to another copy button it would copy the first button's respective <p>/p> text. My javascript

const copyButton = document.querySelector('.copyButton');
const copyalert = document.querySelector('.copyalert');

copyButton.addEventListener('click', copyClipboard);

function copyClipboard() {
  var copystatus= document.getElementById("randomstatus");
// for Internet Explorer

  if(document.body.createTextRange) {
    var range = document.body.createTextRange();
    range.moveToElementText(copystatus);
    range.select();
    document.execCommand("Copy");
    window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
    copyalert.classList.add("show");
    setTimeout(function() {copyalert.classList.remove("show")},700);
  }
  else if(window.getSelection) {
// other browsers

    var selection = window.getSelection();
    var range = document.createRange();
    range.selectNodeContents(copystatus);
    selection.removeAllRanges();
    selection.addRange(range);
    document.execCommand("Copy");
    window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
    copyalert.classList.add("show");
    setTimeout(function() {copyalert.classList.remove("show")},700);
  }
}

My html

<div>
   <h2 class="statusheading">Latest English quotes</h2>
  <div id="englishquotes">
   <div class="latestquotes">
       <p class=latest>life os good when hou have books</p>
       <button class="copyButton btn">Copy</button>
          <span class="copyalert">Copied!</span>
</div>
<div class="latestquotes">
       <p class=latest>Google is a open source library</p>
       <button class="copyButton btn">Copy</button>
          <span class="copyalert">Copied!</span>
   </div>
<div class="latestquotes">
       <p class=latest>Cat is better than dog</p>
       <button class="copyButton btn">Copy</button>
          <span class="copyalert">Copied!</span>
   </div>
  </div>
  </div>
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3 Answers

You just need to let the system knows the id of the text you want to copy , e.g. p1, p2, p3.

Please try this

<div>
   <h2 class="statusheading">Latest English quotes</h2>
  <div id="englishquotes">
   <div class="latestquotes">

       <p><div id=p1>life os good when hou have books</div></p> 
       <button class="copyButton btn" onclick="copyToClipboard('p1')">Copy</button>

</div>

 

<div class="latestquotes">

       <p><div id=p2>Google is a open source library</div></p>
       <button class="copyButton btn" onclick="copyToClipboard('p2')">Copy</button>

   </div>

 

<div class="latestquotes">

       <p><div id=p3>Cat is better than dog</div></p>
       <button class="copyButton btn" onclick="copyToClipboard('p3')">Copy</button>

   </div>
  </div>
  </div>


<script>


function copyToClipboard(var1){
    let val = document.getElementById(var1).innerHTML;
    const selBox = document.createElement('textarea');
    selBox.style.position = 'fixed';
    selBox.style.left = '0';
    selBox.style.top = '0';
    selBox.style.opacity = '0';
    selBox.value = val;
    document.body.appendChild(selBox);
    selBox.focus();
    selBox.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    document.body.removeChild(selBox);
    alert('text copied to clipboard, please use Ctrl-V to paste the data');

  }  


</script>
user_118549860

You have to create a text area, append to body and apply execCommand function, then you can remove the textarea from your DOM, try this:

function copyToClipboard(){
    let val = 'text to copy';
    const selBox = document.createElement('textarea');
    selBox.style.position = 'fixed';
    selBox.style.left = '0';
    selBox.style.top = '0';
    selBox.style.opacity = '0';
    selBox.value = val;
    document.body.appendChild(selBox);
    selBox.focus();
    selBox.select();
    document.execCommand('copy');
    document.body.removeChild(selBox);
    alert('text copied to clipboard');
  }
<button type=button onclick="copyToClipboard()">Copy</button>

user_136623390

You don't have to rely on execCommand. Nowadays there is the Clipboard API. All modern browser support it.

The Clipboard API provides the ability to respond to clipboard commands (cut, copy, and paste) as well as to asynchronously read from and write to the system clipboard.

Demo of a copy button:

const copy = async() => {
  return await navigator.clipboard.writeText(document.querySelector("#source").value);
}

document.querySelector("#copy").onclick = copy
<textarea id="source"></textarea>
<button id="copy">copier</button>

user_12481770
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