Beautiful!!

Thanks Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@h...]
Sent: 04 July 2002 16:37
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] Re: copy to clipboard - More


Further tests reveal you are right, if the table row has more than one cell 
then the findText fails and the range is not modified as per the docs. I 
would suggest a differnent approach:

clipboardData.setData("text", oRow.innerText);

Joe


>From: "Alex Shiell, ITS, EB, SE" <alex.shiell@s...>
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] copy to clipboard
>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:40:15 +0100
>
>I would like to copy the selected row of a table to the clipboard.
>
>As far as my understanding goes, this code should do it:
>
>var r = document.body.createTextRange();
>r.findText(oRow.innerText);
>r.select();
>r.execCommand("copy");
>
>But it always selects and copies the entire page.
>
>(if I alert oRow.innerText it does show me the text I want to copy)
>
>Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
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