Allow user to highlight AND copy listgrid data

[acarur01]

I know there is currently a sample on how to get around copying to clipboard - but I was wondering why it is not just enough to allow the user to highlight the text that they want to copy from a listgrid? Is there something different about generating the listgrids that the text are not regular text found in html that can be highlighted and copied?

I just want to be able to explain to our customers that a simple action has to be done in four steps instead of two.

Please let me know if this functionality does exist. Otherwise, please give an explanation as to why it doesn't. I've tried telling them that we cannot just copy to the clipboard anymore because it is not supported in some browsers but they want more reasoning. Thanks!

[Isomorphic]

A ListGrid is not a simple HTML table - it has a much more complex structure and the browser doesn't know what to do with that structure on copy and paste.

This is aside from the fact that drag selecting text would conflict with any ListGrid where dragging is used for another purpose.