[GRLUG] clipboard query

[Dave Chiodo]

To be honest, a webpage having some special "copy" script sounds like
a case of reinventing the wheel, and not very well, either.

Of course, because the one in this thread had to display the code in a
manner which leads to selecting it to also select the line numbers,
"normal" copy/paste doesn't work so well.

So they broke the normal copy/paste, and wrote a special one that
doesn't work even half as well.

Clearly the folks behind that site's design aren't quite as genius as
they think they are.



On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 03/20/2013 09:06 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> I'm looking at
>> http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/exactly-how-to-create-a-custom-jquery-accordion/.
>>
>> Each bit of code there has a prompt "copy to clipboard" and when you
>> click it, an alert tells you the code is now on the clipboard. But when
>> I try to paste it into a text editor, nothing pastes. What am I missing?
>> Or is it just broken?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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> Having written a script for "Copy to Clipboard" before, I found that
> every major browser except Internet Explorer had blocked the ability to
> copy to the clipboard programmatically for security purposes.  I ended
> up having to do a browser detect to see if it was running under IE
> before showing the button.  Granted, that was a few years ago now and
> things may have changed, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's what
> you're seeing.
>
> - Kyle
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