copyFlash

Click to copy table data to clipboard button (Adobe Flash - deprecated).
Please note - this property requires the Buttons extension for DataTables.

Description

This button provides a simple copy-to-clipboard action to the end user - they click the button and the table's content is automatically written into their clipboard.

Once the data from the table has been written to the clipboard, a message is shown to the end user stating this fact. The message shown can be customised through the buttons.copyTitle (title) and buttons.copyInfo (more detailed information) options of the DataTables language configuration object (see example below). By default they are is:

copyTitle: 'Copy to clipboard',
copyInfo: {
    _: 'Copied %d rows to clipboard',
    1: 'Copied 1 row to clipboard'
}

Adobe Flash is required for this button to operate. If Flash is not installed, or disabled, in the end user's browser this button will not appear. For a non-Flash alternative please see the copyHtml5 button type. Additionally the copy will automatically select between this button and copyHtml5 depending on the features of the browser.

The action for this button cannot be activated using the button().trigger() or key combination methods due to the security restrictions of Flash.

Options

This button can have the following options set in its configuration object to customise its actions and display:

Examples

$('#myTable').DataTable( {
	buttons: [
		'copyFlash'
	]
} );

$('#myTable').DataTable( {
	buttons: [
		'copy'
	]
} );

$('#myTable').DataTable( {
	buttons: [
		{
			extend: 'copyFlash',
			text: 'Copy current page',
			exportOptions: {
				modifier: {
					page: 'current'
				}
			}
		}
	]
} );

$('#myTable').DataTable( {
	language: 
		buttons: {
			copyTitle: 'Data copied',
			copyInfo: {
				_: 'Copied %d items',
				1: 'Copied a single item'
			}
		}
	},
	buttons: [
		'copyFlash'
	]
} );