Flask app-- copy table in Web page to clipboard

Question

I have a table in a webpage with a list of what we have available. Users will need to copy the information to place orders against it. Rather than copying the entire table I would like some code to put it into there clipboard in the correct format. I am unsure if this sits with JavaScript or python?

Maybe bootstrap 3(that I'm using) has something in there is file to make easier?

Flask version=0.10.1

Answer 1

maybe this might help:-
Python have a module named "pyperclip" to copy the stuff on clip board but before that you have to extract the row/column first.

https://pypi.org/project/pyperclip/

Answer 2

Arsenic the flask app retrieves the information from a database, and puts the view into a table, so that shouldn't be an issue.

My only other thought might be could you store the view in a record set to not run unnecessary queries against database.

Answer 3

const copytext = (text) => {
let textarea = document.createElement('textarea');
document.body.appendChild(textarea);
textarea.value = text;
textarea.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
textarea.remove();
}

https://code.sololearn.com/WA5HF1OI2FMx/?ref=app

Answer 4

Hi Arnesh , thanks for the reply I was hoping to copy the content of an entire table. Is this possible?!

Answer 5

You can copy text. Pass the entire table text to this function and it will be copied. This function copies text. Now it is upto you how you separate the table data.

Note: Copying text means the previous text is gone unless it is saved in a clipboard.

But if you really want to give the user the table, what about letting him/her download a .xlsx file generated by the server?

Answer 6

Arnesh ok, I can try that, the only reason for note creating a CSV file and passing back to the user was because I thought it'd be a little slow