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Copy hidden text in div or button element to clipboard with click function

I have spent a couple of days looking at examples of this. I believe I am either missing something or simply misusing it. I created my own version with slight modifications but it isn't working for me. I believe it is Javascript not jQuery but I do have other functions in the site with jQuery so I kept this in the header.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Below this, I have the following script. I have seen a lot of examples using input containers but I need a simple click function to copy text that is not visible but in the element as a value. I want to be able to let the user click a "SPAN12" button and the elements needed to create a span12 for layout should copy to the clipboard. Then the user can paste the div element with a span12 class into the textarea. I guess another option is to let the code add it directly to the textarea with a click of the button labeled span12 but if not, then at least copying to clipboard is a great start. I just don't want to have the text show and I don't want it to be in the input to copy from, just a button. I have seen lots of examples with the 2 just mentioned but none in the way I am picturing.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#toCopy").on('click', function(){
document.getElementById("toCopy").addEventListener("copy", myFunction);
});
});
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("copied").innerHTML = "You copied text!"
}
</script>
The element I am trying to manipulate is as follows.
<button type="text" id="toCopy" onclick="myFunction()" value="<div class='span12'></div>">Span 12</button>
<p id="copied"></p>

Jquery Textarea Not Updating

I have a textarea that outputs HTML code. I am having difficulty getting my jsfiddle to work on my project.
It works perfectly in the JSfiddle but when I use it on my page it keeps outputting the original textarea value and not the updated one.
Should I be using a keypress to make it work or might there be a conflict with other JS code that I have?
http://jsfiddle.net/YPLeB/7/
I am using the same code on my page, but no luck.
<div id="update">
<textarea id="example">I cannot get the alert to show the new value</textarea>
<button id="btn">update</button>
</div>
Script:
$("#btn").click(function() {
alert($('#example').val());
});

I found out what the issue was. I was using nicEdit text editor that was not playing well with textareas. I switched editors and now it works using .val().
Thank you all for your help!

Firefox - how to get selected text when using double click

I created a contentEditable div with a text portion and a link. Double clicking the link will select the link text.
<div contentEditable="true">
This is a text and This_is_a_link
</div>
Afterwards calling document.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).startContainer will return the div:
// => <div contenteditable="true">
Instead of the link. I cannot find a way to find which part of the div is selected.
See this jsfiddle (double click the "This_is_a_link" and there will be a console log with startContainer):
http://jsfiddle.net/UExsS/1/
(Obligatory JS code from the fiddle)
$(function(){
$('a').dblclick(function(e) {
setTimeout(function() {
console.log(window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0));
}, 500);
});
});
Note, that Chrome has the correct behavior, and running the above jsfiddle in Chrome will give textElement for startContainer.
Has anyone run into this issue? did you find a workaround?

Don't think its a bug of Firefox, just a different kind of implementation. When you double click the link, Firefox selects not only the text, but the whole a-tag, so the parent node of the selection is correctly set to the div container.
I added these few lines of code to your fiddle to proof that point:
var linknode = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).commonAncestorContainer.childNodes[1];
console.log(linknode);
console.log(window.getSelection().containsNode(linknode, false));
Forked fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XZ6vc/
When you run it, you'll see in the javascript console that linknode contains your link, and the check if the link is fully contained in the selection returns true.
This is also one possible solution to the problem, albeit not ideal one. Iterate over all the links in your contenteditable and check if one of them is fully contained in the selection.
Though one word of advice: Don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to ;-) There's quite possibly some libraries / frameworks out there that fit your needs.

How can I get the caret position on a contenteditable <button>

So I have a contenteditable button in my webpage I declare like so:
<button id="test" contentEditable="true">This <img src="image..png" /> is a button, click me!</button>
I move the caret around, and I want to find its final location. I tried both:
window.getSelection().focusOffset.toString()
document.getElementById('test').selectionStart.toString()";
but neither of them seems to work :( Any pointers?

Update
Unfortunately the code from the links below seems to work only with Firefox and not with Chrome (for a button, divs work just fine)
Take a look at these:
Get caret position in contentEditable div
https://niichavo.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/contenteditable-div-cursor-position/
Here's a quick and dirty fiddle - it isn't perfect but it might help you get started. I've used code from the blog post at the second link above.

HTML input fields does not get focus when clicked

I have a problem and I can't figure out what exactly is causing this behavior. I cannot access my input fields and textareas on my HTML form.
Unfortunately, the JS, HTML and CSS are very large, so I can't really post it all here.
Can anybody tell me what to look for when debugging this strange behavior?
UPDATE
If I move the cursor over the input field I can see the text cursor, but when I click it the field does not get the focus. I can access the field via pressing the Tab key and if I right click on it and then click on the field I also get the focus for it.
...and nope, they don't have the disabled or readonly attributes ;-)

when i click it the field does not get the focus. i can access the field via pressing the "tab-key"
It sounds like you've cancelled the default action for the mousedown event. Search through your HTML and JS for onmousedown handlers and look for a line that reads.
return false;
This line may be stopping you from focusing by clicking.
Re: your comment, I'm assuming you can't edit the code that adds this handler? If you can, the simplest solution is to just remove the return false; statement.
is there a way to just add functionality to the event-trigger by not overwriting it?
That depends on how the handler is attached. If it's attached using the traditional registration method, e.g. element.onmousedown, then you could create a wrapper for it:
var oldFunc = element.onmousedown;
element.onmousedown = function (evt) {
oldFunc.call(this, evt || window.event);
}
Since this "wrapper" doesn't return false, it will not cancel the default action (focusing) for the element. If your event is attached using an advanced registration method, such as addEventListener or attachEvent then you could only remove the event handler using the function name/reference and reattach it with a wrapped function similar to the above. If it's an anonymous function that's added and you can't get a reference to it, then the only solution would be to attach another event handler and focus the element manually using the element.focus() method.

I had this problem too. I used the disableSelection() method of jQuery UI on a parent DIV which contained my input fields. In Chrome the input fields were not affected but in Firefox the inputs (and textareas as well) did not get focused on clicking. The strange thing here was, that the click event on these inputs worked.
The solution was to remove the disableSelection() method for the parent DIV.

Use the onclick="this.select()" attribute for the input tag.

I know this is a very old thread, but this just happened to me recently; took me a while to figure it out.
This same issue can be caused by putting 'input' elements inside of pair of 'label' tags.
In my case, I had intended to create a pair of 'div' tags but instead I accidently created a pair of 'label' tags, then inserted some text input fields 'input type="text"..' using DOM.
It displayed normally on the screen, but when I clicked on any of the text fields, the cursor kept jumping back to the first 'input' and really acting erratic.
Took me a while to figure this out because this behavior is subtle, and not at all what I would have expected from making this kind of mistake.
bsnider

I've been struggling with the same problem a while ago. I was using the jquery.layout plugin in a modal jquery-ui dialog and I couldn't access any of the fields in it.
It appeared to be a z-index problem (some div was over my input fields, so I couldn't click them). You should check it out and try changing the z-index value of your input fields.

This happens sometimes when there are unbalanced <label> tags in the form.

I had this problem too, and in my case I found that the color of the font was the same color of the background, so it looked like nothing happened.

I have read all the answers above, and some directed me to the problem, but not to the solution for the problem.
The root cause of the problem is disableSelection(). It is causing all the problems, but removing it is not a solution, as (at least in 2016 or slightly before), on touch-screen devices, you "have" to use this if you want to be able to move objects with jQuery.
The solution was to leave the disableSelection() to the sortable element, but also add a binding action just above:
$('#your_selector_id form').bind('mousedown.ui-disableSelection selectstart.ui-disableSelection', function(event) {
event.stopImmediatePropagation();
})
The form in the jQuery element is just to stop propagation on the form, as you might need propagation on some elements.

This can occur in bootstrap if you do not place your columns inside a <div class ='row'>. The column floats are not cleared and you could get the next column overlying the previous, hence clicks wont hit the dom elements where you expect.

If you are faced this problem while using canvas with DOM on mobile devices, the answer of Ashwin G worked for me perfectly, but I did it through javascript
var element = document.getElementById("myinputfield");
element.onclick = element.select();
After, everything worked flawlessly.

I had the similar issue - could not figure out what was the reason, but I fixed it using following code. Somehow it could not focus only the blank inputs:
$('input').click(function () {
var val = $(this).val();
if (val == "") {
this.select();
}
});

For Anyone Using Electron
For anyone having this issue with Electron specifically, the problem for me was using alert before selecting the input fields. Apparently alert and confirm aren't entirely supported by Electron, and therefore can mess up input fields. If you'd still like to use them, refer to this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38859135/12293837

I had this problem because of this code:
$("#table tbody tr td:first-child").bind("mousedown", function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$(this).parents('tr').removeClass('draggable');
});
I resolved it by removing
e.preventDefault();
New code:
$("#table tbody tr td:first-child").bind("mousedown", function(){
$(this).parents('tr').removeClass('draggable');
});

Just in case someone else is looking for this answer, we had a similar problem and solved it by changing the z-index of the input tags. Apparently some other divs had extended too far and were overlapping the input boxes.

I had this problem for over 6 months, it may be the same issue. Main symptom is that you can't move the cursor or select text in text inputs, only the arrow keys allow you to move around in the input field. Very annoying problem, especially for textarea input fields. I have this html that gets populated with 1 out of 100s of forms via Javascript:
<div class="dialog" id="alert" draggable="true">
<div id="head" class="dialog_head">
<img id='icon' src='images/icon.png' height=20 width=20><img id='icon_name' src='images/icon_name.png' height=15><img id='alert_close_button' class='close_button' src='images/close.png'>
</div>
<div id="type" class="type"></div>
<div class='scroll_div'>
<div id="spinner" class="spinner"></div>
<div id="msg" class="msg"></div>
<div id="form" class="form"></div>
</div>
</div>
Apparently 6 months ago I had tried to make the popup draggable and failed, breaking text inputs at the same time. Once I removed draggable="true" it works again!

I'm using JQuery UI and Bootstrap so I faced this issue and I think it is a conflict between the two as in normal case the textarea or the input filed is editable by nature but I made this solution after testing all the above answers but none solve the cross browser support for all major browsers, but I solved it and I like to share my solution you can use it on input text and textarea
(Tested on Desktop: IE (All Versions), Chrome, Safari, Windows Edge, Firefox, Visual Studio Cordova Ripple Viewer on Windows & Visual Studio Cordova Windows 10 Store App)
(Tested on Mobile: Chrome, Firefox, Android Internet Browser & Visual Studio Cordova App on Android & Visual Studio Cordova Windows 8 + 8.1 + 10 Phone App)
This is the HTML Code:
<textarea contenteditable id="textarea"></textarea>
This is The CSS Code:
textarea {
-webkit-user-select: text !important;
-khtml-user-select: text !important;
-moz-user-select: text !important;
-ms-user-select: text !important;
user-select: text !important;
/*to make sure that background color and text color is not the same (from the answers above)*/
background-color:#fff !important;
color:#733E27 !important;
}
This Is The JQuery Code On Document Ready
$("textarea").click(function() {
setTimeout(function(){
$("textarea").focus();
//add this if you are using JQuery UI (From The Solutions Above)
$("textarea").enableSelection();
var val = $("textarea").val();
if (val.charAt(val.length-1) !== " " && val.length !== 1) {
alert(val.length);
val += " ";
}
$("textarea").val(val);
}, 0);
});
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') !== -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome') !== -1) {
//alert('Its Safari or chrome');
$("textarea").onfocus(function(e) {
setTimeout(function(){
var end;
if ($("textarea").val === "") {
end = 0;
} else {
end = $("textarea").val.length;
}
if ($("textarea").setSelectionRange) {
var range = document.getElementById('textarea').createTextRange();
if (range) {
setTimeout(range, 0, [end, end]);
} else { // IE style
var aRange = document.getElementById('textarea').createTextRange();
aRange.collapse(true);
aRange.moveEnd('character', end);
aRange.moveStart('character', end);
aRange.select();
}
}
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}, 0);
});
}
You can test it on my web application at www.gahwehsada.com

When you say
and nope, they don't have attributes: disabled="disabled" or readonly ;-)
Is this through viewing your html, the source code of the page, or the DOM?
If you inspect the DOM with Chrome or Firefox, then you will be able to see any attributes added to the input fields through javasript, or even an overlaying div

I just found another possible reason for this issue, some input textboxes were missing the closing "/", so i had <input ...> when the correct form is <input ... />. That fixed it for me.

In my case it was Bootstrap popup in opened state.
Text input was in another calendar popup on top of Bootstrap one, input got its focus back after removing tabindex="-1" attribute from Bootstrap modal.

iPhone6 chrome
Problem for me was placing the input field inside <label> and <p>
like this :
<label>
<p>
<input/>
</p>
</label>
I changed them to
<div>
<div>
<input/>
</div>
</div>
And it works for me .
After check this answer, Please check other answers in this page, this issue may have different reasons

Its worth adding that having the property pointer-events:none on your input label will also produce this unwanted behaviour.

It might be because of invalid for attribute in the label attribute
<input type="text" id="your_name" name="your_name">
<label for="your_name">Your Name</label>
<input type="text" id="your_email" name="your_name">
<label for="your_name">Your Name</label>
I have tried to update the for attribute in the second label to your_email instead of your_name and its works for me
<label for="your_email">Your Name</label>

This will also happen anytime a div ends up positioned over controls in another div; like using bootstrap for layout, and having a "col-lg-4" followed by a "col-lg=8" misspelling... the right orphaned/misnamed div covers the left, and captures the mouse events. Easy to blow by that misspelling, - and = next to each other on keyboard. So, pays to examine with inspector and look for 'surprises' to uncover these wild divs.
Is there an unseen window covering the controls and blocking events, and how can that happen? Turns out, fatfingering = for - with bootstrap classnames is one way...

I had the same problem. I eventually figured it out by inspecting the element and the element I thought I had selected was different element. When I did that I found there was a hidden element that had z-index of 9999, once I fixed that my problem went away.

the problem for me was that I was using class="modal fade", I changed it for class="modal hide". That solved the issue.

I had the same problem. Tore my hair for hours trying all sorts of solutions. Turned out to be an unclosed a tag.Try validate your HTML code, solution could be an unclosed tag causing issues

I had this issue using Bootstrap + contact form 7.
I for some reason I put the label as the container of the form and that was the issue for not being selectable on mobile.
<label>
<contact form>...</contact form>
</label>
Seemed to break all inputs except the first input and the submit.

I had the same issue and the fix was to remove the placeholders and I changed the design of the form to use labels instead of placeholders...

I had this issue caused by a sort of overlap of a div element with a bootstrap class ="row" over a "brother" div element with the class="col", the first hid the focus of the second div element.
I solved taking outer the div row element from that level of the divs' tree and so rebalancing bootstrap logical hierarchy based on the row and col classes.

I had this same issue just now in React.
I figured out that in the Router, Route. We cannot do this as it causes this issue of closing the mobile keyboard.
<Route
path = "some-path"
component = {props => <MyComponent />}
/>
Make sure and use the render instead in this situation
<Route
path = "some-path"
render = {props => <MyComponent />}
/>
Hope this helps someone
Daniel