Copy text from TextArea into clipboard using JavaScript on Non-Microsoft platforms

Question

I am looking for a javascript function which can copy contents from TextArea into clipboard. On microsoft platform the function works fine, but it fails when I switch to non-microsoft platform such as, FireFox or Safari.
I referred this link for the function.

If anyone knows the solution for this, please help me out.
Thanks in advance.

Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127040/copy-put-text-on-the-clipboard-with-firefox-safari-and-chrome and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2072026/copy-to-clipboard-not-working-on-firefox — RoToRa, Aug 06 '10 at 08:59
but the solutions which are provided and accepted for these questions, doesn't work. So I thought to re-post it to get better solutions. — VJOY, Aug 07 '10 at 10:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '15 at 21:51

A pure JavaScript solution for copying the contents of a textarea to the clipboard when the user clicks on the textarea:

<script>

function copySelectionText(){
    var copysuccess // var to check whether execCommand successfully executed
    try{
        copysuccess = document.execCommand("copy") // run command to copy selected text to clipboard
    } catch(e){
        copysuccess = false
    }
    return copysuccess
}

function copyfieldvalue(e, id){
    var field = document.getElementById(id)
    field.select()
    var copysuccess = copySelectionText()
}

var bio = document.getElementById('mybio')
bio.addEventListener('mouseup', function(e){
    copyfieldvalue(e, 'mybio')
    var copysuccess = copySelectionText() // copy user selected text to clipboard
}, false)

</script>

Note: If you want to copy only parts of the textarea contents to clipboard, the tutorial Reading and copying selected text to clipboard using JavaScript has more info on that.

Copy text from TextArea into clipboard using JavaScript on Non-Microsoft platforms

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