Example of how to enable copy from table cell

[paddymul]

Feature Request

I want to be able to copy cell values from the table to the clipboard.

Description of Problem:

I want to be able to use the perspective table like any other table, including copying values out of a table. This is somewhat possible with the current implementation if you make cells edittable.

Potential Solutions:

Context menu, or click cell to highlight, then Ctrl-C copies the value to the clipboard.

[paddymul]

Surprisingly this is an enterprise only feature for ag-grid. https://www.ag-grid.com/javascript-data-grid/clipboard/

[texodus]

You can use the "Select Region" mode to select single cells (or regions obv), which are then copyable in the "Copy" menu:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8f850a82-1848-4971-b844-39fd8bb74c56

This could be more elegant:

• [ ] You are still limited to existing perspective output types e.g. csv, we can add a truly-single-cell and properly formatted (e.g. significant digits or datetime format) special case for when region selection is a single cell.
• [ ] Ctrl-C is not enabled by default. We could add a handler for this but it may behave quirkily in your web app due to browser focus rules (e.g. I expect this not to work great in Jupyter). Need to do some research.
• [ ] '"Region Select"should be default instead ofRead-Only` maybe? I'm open to ideas about hwo to make selection modes more discoverable.

[aszenz]

I'm open to ideas about hwo to make selection modes more discoverable.

HTML table's native text selection mode is the most discoverable, since perspective data-grid renders an html table why doesn't native text selection work, can it be the default mode if other options need to exist?

[aszenz]

EDIT:

Seems like text selection does work in edit mode but only for a single cell, one cannot copy across cells (both horizontally/vertically) like in a normal HTML table:

A	B	C
1	hello	bye
1	long string of the text	bye
1	another text string	bye