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Amrit Sharma
Amrit Sharma

Reputation: 1916

Copy Text from text box with button onclick event

I like to copy the text of the Textbox when user click button1, so that it can be paste anywhere.

I searched on google for some solutions, but didn't get any positive response.

Anybody advice me to how perform this action?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 35500

Answers (5)

Sasha Xen Promychev
Sasha Xen Promychev

Reputation: 11

Clipboard.SetText(textBox1.Text.ToString()); Everyone forgot to tell you about .ToString() method. That works 100%

Upvotes: 1

Tiny Hacker
Tiny Hacker

Reputation: 121

You can use like this one:

private void btnCopy_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Clipboard.SetText(txtClipboard.Text);
}
private void btnPaste_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    txtResult.Text = Clipboard.GetText();
}

Upvotes: 12

avi.tavdi
avi.tavdi

Reputation: 305

You wish to copy text to the clipboard. The basic syntax is:

Clipboard.SetText("The text you want to copy");

But in order for it to work there is more work to put into it, use the links I provided. You can find further information here and here for c# and here for ASP.net which is more relevant for you.

This code was taken from CodeProject link aformentioned, and should work by using different thread. 

private static string _Val;
public static string Val
{
    get { return _Val; }
    set { _Val = value; }
}
protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{            
    Val = label.Text;
    Thread staThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart (myMethod));
    staThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA;
    staThread.Start();
}
public static void myMethod()
{
    Clipboard.SetText(Val);
}

Upvotes: 2

aiapatag
aiapatag

Reputation: 3430

You must do this on the client side (your browser). Doing this in server side (ASP.NET) doesn't make sense.

Unfortunately, clipboard manipulation is not cross-browser. If you need it to be cross-browser, you have to use flash. Look at ZeroClipboard library.

Look at this jsfiddle for a working example.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.steamdev.com/zclip/js/jquery.zclip.min.js"></script>
<a id='copy' href="#">Copy</a>
<div id='description'>this seems awesome</div>

$(document).ready(function(){
        $('a#copy').zclip({
            path:'http://www.steamdev.com/zclip/js/ZeroClipboard.swf',
            copy:$('div#description').text()
        });
});

Then for further examples on how to use ZeroClipboard, look at their md.

Upvotes: 0

Romano Zumb&#233;
Romano Zumb&#233;

Reputation: 8079

In the Click Event of the button use the following:

Clipboard.SetText(textBox.Text);

Upvotes: 0

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