I am trying to create a button that doesn't use ID to copy text from an input text field.
I thought the best way to do this would be using an event listener and then on click activate the function that would copy text from the input value.
HTML:
<div>
<input type="text" value="copy this" readonly>
<button type=button id='btn'>Copy URL</button>
</div>
JS:
<script>
document.querySelect('#btn').addEventListener('click', function() {
jimsFunction();
});
function jimsFunction() {
var copyText = document.getElementByTagName('input').value;
copyText.select();
copyText.setSelectionRange(0, 99999);
navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText.value);
alert("Copied: " + copyText.value);
}
</script>
Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks
tag is elements . You were missed sdocument.getElementByTagName ->document.getElemenstByTagName
Try it :
document.getElementById('btn').addEventListener('click', function() {
jimsFunction(this)
});
let btns = document.getElementsByClassName('btn')
Array.from(btns).forEach(ele => {
ele.addEventListener('click', function() {
jimsFunction(this)
});
})
function jimsFunction(input) {
let ele = input.previousElementSibling
ele.select()
ele.setSelectionRange(0, 99999)
navigator.clipboard.writeText(ele.value)
alert("Copied: " + ele.value)
}<div>
<input type="text" value="copy this" readonly>
<button type=button id='btn'>Copy URL</button>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" value="text 1" readonly>
<button type=button class='btn'>Copy URL</button>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" value="text 2 (different)" readonly>
<button type=button class='btn'>Copy URL</button>
</div>You are duplicate id, you should change to class