copy not working with Microsoft Edge

[maerni]

Hi

We use ngx-clipboard with the following code to copy something to clipboard:

public copyToClipboard(text: string) { if (this.clipboardService.isSupported && this.clipboardService.isCopySuccessInIE11()) { this.clipboardService.copyFromContent(text); } else { } }

We use ngx-clipboard 12.2.1 with Angular 7.2.15.

With Microsoft Internet Exporer 11 and Google Chrome it works fine.

With Microsoft Edge it does not work.

What we have to do?

Thanks very much.

[maxisam]

what version of edge? it works on my edge.

[maerni]

We use the following version

Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1098.0 Microsoft EdgeHTML 17.17134

Perhaps we use the wrong version of ngx-clipboard?

Should we use a 11.x version with Angular 7.x?

Or is our code wrong?

[maxisam]

Oh, i don't have version 42.

I am on Version 80.0.361.62

[maerni]

On another machine I have Microsoft Edge 44.18362.449.0 there it also did not work.

Then I downloaded Microsoft Edge 80.0.361.62. With this version it works.

But do have any idea, why it does not work with the old edge? Because in our company on all machines the version 42.x is installed...

[maxisam]

Do you have any error message in console?

[maerni]

no, the call

this.clipboardService.copyFromContent(text);

returns false but there is no error message

[maxisam]

I just tested it on browserstack. It works on Edge 18, which is version 44.

[maxisam]

But seriously, I doubt there are lots of people use Edge 18 anyway. Upgrading Edge seems like a good idea.

[maerni]

Did you also test it with version 42?

[maerni]

Very special. I tryed my application on Edge 17 (version 42) and Edge 18 (version 44) on browserstack and it did not work...

Perhaps we use ngx-clipboard wrong?

How would you use it for copying over the ClipboardService?

[maxisam]

You can check the example. https://stackblitz.com/github/maxisam/ngx-clipboard

I used angular 9 to test it. However, there are not much different after 11.x.

[maxisam]

I doubt you use it wrong because you said it works on IE 11.

[maerni]

Which version of ngx-clipboard should we use with Angular 7.x?

I will check your example and look, if we do something wrong.

[maerni]

I could not find any difference to your code.

In app.module.ts I have the following code:

import { ClipboardModule } from 'ngx-clipboard'; imports: [...ClipboardModule...],

In my component (it is a service) I have the following code:

import { ClipboardService } from 'ngx-clipboard'; constructor(private clipboardService: ClipboardService) {}

this.clipboardService.copyFromContent('blablabla');

[maxisam]

v12 should be able to work with angular 7. But I doubt that is the problem.

[maerni]

Very special