The copyHtml5 button type operates by showing
a message to the end user inviting them to activate their operating system's copy (or cut) command. This work by copying text from a hidden text area that contains
the exported data from the table and is required as there is no API in HTML5 that will allow copy to clipboard with a single click (use the copyFlash Flash button if you require that ability).
The message shown to the end user can be customised using the language configuration option of DataTables. Specifically the buttons.copyTitle and
buttons.copyKey options can be set.
This example uses these parameters to set French language strings for the copy message (with apologies to our native language French speaking friends! This is Google translated text - if you have an better translation, please let me know!).
| Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
| Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
| Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
| Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
| Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
| Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
| Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
| Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
| Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
| Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
| Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
dom: 'Bfrtip',
buttons: [
'copyHtml5'
],
language: {
buttons: {
copyTitle: 'Copier au clipboard',
copyKeys: 'Appuyez sur <i>ctrl</i> ou <i>\u2318</i> + <i>C</i> pour copier les données de table à votre presse-papiers du système. <br><br>Pour annuler, cliquez sur ce message ou appuyez sur Echap.'
}
}
} );
} );
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
This example uses a little bit of additional CSS beyond what is loaded from the library files (below), in order to correctly display the table. The additional CSS used is shown below:
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
This table loads data by Ajax. The latest data that has been loaded is shown below. This data will update automatically as any additional data is loaded.
The script used to perform the server-side processing for this table is shown below. Please note that this is just an example script using PHP. Server-side processing scripts can be written in any language, using the protocol described in the DataTables documentation.