How to copy text to clipboard programmatically?

How to copy text to the clipboard in Javascript?

• I'm wondering if there's any way to copy text to the clipboard. I'm well aware of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400212/how-to-copy-to-the-clipboard-in-javascript, but it's over three years old now. Has anything changed since then?

• Answer:

  The easiest thing to do at this point is to go with a Flash based solution. http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/ is a common one (a nice walkthrough is available http://davidwalsh.name/clipboard). Browser vendors have over the past few years removed programatic access to the clipboard. Safari / Chrome lost the ability after a change in WebKit, and FireFox for a long time has blocked it. Only IE remains as one that does allow it, however it displays an alert on each page initially.