How to use a button in HTML/JS to copy to the Clipboard the href link from an Anchor?

Question

I have an html file with a table collecting in every row several web links (url), and in the same table I would like to have a button for every row, that copies to the Clipboard the link of that row (embedded as 'href' in an anchor tag), giving to the user a feedback popup.

I've tried in several ways but it seems that most of the available examples show how to achieve that just for input fields, moreover with hard-coded functions that do not receive as a parameter the reference id for the text to be copied.

Any ideas?

-UPDATE- I solved my problem thanks to the suggestion of Maassander. Unfortunately the suggested thread was not specific enough for my issue: How do I copy to the clipboard in JavaScript?

Answer 1

The most basic version of this would look something like this I guess:

 var rows = document.getElementsByClassName('table-row'); for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){ var button = rows[i].querySelector('button'); button.addEventListener('click', function(e){ var link = e.target.closest('tr').querySelector('a'); var tempText = document.createElement('textarea'); tempText.value = link.href; document.body.appendChild(tempText); tempText.select(); document.execCommand('copy'); document.body.removeChild(tempText); }); }

 <table> <tr class="table-row"> <td><a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a></td> <td><button type="button">Copy</button></td> </tr> <tr class="table-row"> <td><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a></td> <td><button type="button">Copy</button></td> </tr> </table>