Copy excel formatted data to clipboard from web

Question

I'm looking to provide a button on my page, that when clicked, would copy (excel formatted) data to the users clipboard and they are able to paste in excel with values separated by columms. Is this possible, maybe jquery? I have a understanding and experience with OOP.

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

It seems to be difficult to find a simple solution in JS which is cross browser (It is simple for IE but not for other browser), so you can take a look at ZerClipboard which is a good solution using Javascript and Flash.

ZeroClipboard