2009 July | Enghiong

Javascript – Paste Clipboard Data To Textarea

After previous post which is copying data to clipboard, now it’s time to paste the clipboard data to textarea. I give an example when the page load, the data are paste to textarea.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function pasteClipboard() {
txt = document.form1.textareaName.createTextRange();
txt.execCommand(‘Paste’);
}
</script>
<BODY onload=”pasteClipboard()”>
<form action=”” name=”form1″ method=”post”>
<TEXTAREA NAME=”textareaName”></TEXTAREA>
</form>
</body>
Remember this code only works in IE.

Javascript – Copy Data To Clipboard

Sunday, July 5th 2009 Tags: clipboard data, copy data to clipboard, copy to clipboard, javascript copy clipboard, javascript copy to clipboard, set clipboard data, set data for clipboard

When you add a button to your form which will perform the action of copying data to the clipboard, you will need this following function, but unfortunately it works only in IE.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function CopyToClipBoard(txt) {
if (window.clipboardData) {
window.clipboardData.setData(“Text”,txt);
}
}
</script>
<form name=”form1″>
<textarea name=”txtarea” >The data to be copied</textarea>
<input type=”button” value=”Copy To Clipboard” onclick=”CopyToClipBoard(document.form1.txtarea.value);”>
</form>
Before copying data to clipboard it’s good [...]

Javascript Highlight Text Area

Friday, July 3rd 2009 Tags: highlight text area, highlight textarea, javascript highlight text area, select text, select text area, text selection

You may have noticed that whenever you want you to copy code from a text area when it got focus it will highlight all of the code for you to copy and paste onto your website. Well I thought I will share that code snippet with you as it can be very handy.
<form name=”form1″>
<textarea name=”textarea” [...]

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