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Build a React.js Copy to Clipboard Component Using react-copy-to-clipboard Library in Browser
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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ReactJS package which is used to
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implement copy to clipboard
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functionality inside your ReactJS
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application so copy to clipboard guys is
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a very important functionality in an in
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any application so you can see we have
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this both the ways by which we can
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implement copy to clipboard by the span
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tag or by a simple button as well so we
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have this input field right here if you
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write something inside this input field
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and then if you click copy to clipboard
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you will see you will get this
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notification that the text has been
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copied same you can do this with the
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button as well so as you click the copy
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to clipboard with button so your text
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will be copied and now you will paste
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this
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text you can see the text has been
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successfully pasted so you can do this
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with any HTML element it can be input
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field it can be a paragraph it can be a
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button as well so let me show you the
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module that I'm talking
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about so if you go to
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npmjs.com there is a package
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here react copy to clipboard this is
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actually the package
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that I'm talking about so you just need
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to install this package by executing
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this command npmi react copy to
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clipboard i have already installed it
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it's almost having 1 million weekly
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downloads so I will show you a very
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simple example so just create a simple
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functional
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component so right here we first of all
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need to import this module using the
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import statement so we simply say copy
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to
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clipboard from this package after that
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we will have uh two variables first
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variable will be to actually hold the
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value and for this we will be using the
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ustate hook
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and the second one will be the hold the
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value
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of set copied and set
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copied initial value will be false so it
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will be a boolean parameter signifying
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that whenever you hit the
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button so my microphone was gone so now
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it is back here so right here inside the
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return statement we will have an actual
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input field
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and we'll be binding the value
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here and we'll also be having an
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onchange event handler so whenever the
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value is changed this onchange event
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handler will execute inside this we will
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be having the set value which will say
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e.target dot value and then we will also
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be set copy
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to
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false so if you refresh your application
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you will actually see this input field
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appearing here you can write something
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and uh after that uh we will have an
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actual copy to clipboard button just
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after this we will use this copy to
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clipboard button and uh inside this
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component it takes an object it takes an
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parameter which is the text that needs
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to be
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copied so we will we are copying this
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text that is there in this input field
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we are providing the text the second
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parameter it takes is the on copy
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function which is actually
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a simple function which will execute and
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here we will simply call this set copied
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function and make the value from false
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to
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true so then we can simply say a span
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tag a simple notification message will
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appear to the user that
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your text has been successfully
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copied and when the text has been
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successfully copied uh right here after
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this we will show a simple notification
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message in the red message red color
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color is equal to red margin left is 10
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pixels so now if you write this click
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this you will see
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copied and same you can do this for the
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button as well so if you want to have a
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button you can have another component of
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copy to clipboard this time we will have
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a button instead of a st span tag so you
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can have multiple copy to clipboard
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buttons first one for the span tag now
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this one is for the button as you can
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see both the things perform the same
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thing it is copy to clipboard text if I
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hit this button now you will see copy to
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clipboard so in this way guys you can
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use this package inside uh
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reacts which is react copy to clipboard
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which is used to implement the
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functionality of copy to clipboard
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inside your reacts application uh thank
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you very much guys for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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