Angular 14 ngx-clipboard Example to Copy Text to Clipboard inside TextArea on Button Click in TypeScript

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be integrating copy text to clipboard inside textarea on button click in typescript using ngx-clipboard library. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the below library using the below command as shown below

npm i ngx-clipboard

After that you will see the below directory structure as shown below

As you can see we now need to go to app.module.ts file and copy paste the following code

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from "@angular/platform-browser";
import { NgModule } from "@angular/core";

import { AppComponent } from "./app.component";
import { ClipboardModule } from 'ngx-clipboard';
@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [BrowserModule,ClipboardModule],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

import { BrowserModule } from "@angular/platform-browser";

import { NgModule } from "@angular/core";

import { AppComponent } from "./app.component";

import { ClipboardModule } from 'ngx-clipboard';

@NgModule({

declarations: [AppComponent],

imports: [BrowserModule,ClipboardModule],

providers: [],

bootstrap: [AppComponent]

})

export class AppModule {}

And then you need to go to app.component.html file and copy paste the following code

app.component.html

<div #container>
  <button ngxClipboard [cbContent]="'John Williamson'" [container]="container">Copy</button>
  <textarea name="" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
</div>

</div>

As you can see in the above html code we have the button in which we have attached the copy to clipboard directive and also we have the textarea where we have copy pasted the text.

Copy to Clipboard Dynamically

And now you need to go to app.component.ts file and copy paste the following code

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ClipboardService } from 'ngx-clipboard';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss'],
})
export class AppComponent {
  text = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.';
  constructor(private clipboardService: ClipboardService) {}
  copyContent() {
    this.clipboardService.copyFromContent(this.text);
  }
}

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

import { ClipboardService } from 'ngx-clipboard';

@Component({

selector: 'app-root',

templateUrl: './app.component.html',

styleUrls: ['./app.component.scss'],

})

export class AppComponent {

text = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.';

constructor(private clipboardService: ClipboardService) {}

copyContent() {

this.clipboardService.copyFromContent(this.text);

}

And now in the above typescript code we are importing the clipboardservice from the ngx-clipboard library and then we are declaring the text to be copied and then we declaring the method called copyContent() method which would dynamically copy the text to clipboard.

<div #container>
  <button (click)="copyContent()">Copy Me</button>
</div>

</div>