SVGGraphicsElement: copy event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The copy event fires on SVGGraphicsElements when the user initiates a copy action through the browser's user interface.

The event's default action is to copy the selection (if any) to the clipboard.

A handler for this event can modify the clipboard contents by calling setData(format, data) on the event's ClipboardEvent.clipboardData property, and cancelling the event's default action using event.preventDefault().

However, the handler cannot read the clipboard data.

It's possible to construct and dispatch a synthetic copy event, but this will not affect the system clipboard.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("copy", (event) => {});

oncopy = (event) => {};

Event type

A ClipboardEvent. Inherits from Event.

Event ClipboardEvent

Example

HTML

html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg
  viewBox="0 0 100 30"
  width="600"
  height="320"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text x="5" y="10" id="text-to-copy">Copy this text</text>
  <foreignObject x="5" y="20" width="90" height="20">
    <input xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" placeholder="Paste it here" />
  </foreignObject>
</svg>

CSS

css
input {
  font-size: 10px;
  width: 100%;
  height: 90%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

JavaScript

js
document.querySelector("text").addEventListener("copy", (evt) => {
  evt.clipboardData.setData(
    "text/plain",
    document.getSelection().toString().toUpperCase(),
  );
  evt.preventDefault();
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
Clipboard API and events
# clipboard-event-copy
HTML Standard
# handler-oncopy

Browser compatibility

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See also