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Do you have a recommendation on how it would be possible to help people to copy and paste data to their clipboard from a website?

Would love to allow users to copy a coupon code from the web, but especially on mobile it seems to be a cumbersome effort to select and copy text. Cheers

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  • This is platform-dependent, surely. Both iOS and Windows Phone make it reasonably easy. What mobile platform are you thinking of?
    – Andrew Leach
    Mar 31, 2014 at 12:48
  • Simply add "copy" next to text?
    – steppenwolf
    Mar 31, 2014 at 12:52

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Copy / paste is the clunkiest thing when it comes to mobile. You can at least ease the pain of copying by embedding the functionality into a one-tap button and have that perform the copying part for you.

This example is from addthis.com. Clicking on "Grab It" automatically copies the code in the box.

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This solution is also super convenient for users on desktop as well.

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  • Love the one-tap button approach, but are you aware of any examples that would work on a mobile browser? From my understanding, this approach requires Flash :-( Checking addthis.com with a mobile browser, the "grab it" button becomes a "Send to email" button. Though I'm not sure whether this is due to technical limitation or just for convenience.
    – zaph0t
    Mar 31, 2014 at 20:37
  • I don't know if there is a technical limitation. You'd probably get a more precise answer in a developer forum. They'd be able to provide specs and a solid yes/no regarding feasibility.
    – Pdxd
    Mar 31, 2014 at 20:53

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