<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title> Query to Clipboard JS Applet by Damien Lesser </title>
</head>
<body>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function getQueryVariable(variable)
{
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var vars = query.split("&");
for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
if(pair[0] == variable){return pair[1];}
}
return(false);
}
if getQueryVariable('list') === null{
var clip = getQueryVariable('clip')
} else{
//Nothing
};
function copyStringToClipboard (str) {
// Create new element
var el = document.createElement('textarea');
// Set value (string to be copied)
el.value = clip;
// Set non-editable to avoid focus and move outside of view
el.setAttribute('readonly', '');
el.style = {position: 'absolute', left: '-9999px'};
document.body.appendChild(el);
// Select text inside element
el.select();
el.setSelectionRange(0, 99999); /* For mobile devices */
// Copy text to clipboard
document.execCommand('copy');
// Remove temporary element
document.body.removeChild(el);
};
copyStringToClipboard(clip);
var alert1 = 'copied '
var alert2 = ' to clipboard successfully'
console.log(alert1.concat(clip.concat(alert2)));
var para = document.createElement('p');
para.innerHTML = 'Copied successfully!'
</script>
</body>
</html>
As you have probably guessed, I am new to JavaScript, and I am trying to make a tool that allows developers to open a url with a query string, for the query to then be used for the clipboard, in those few niche cases where you can’t use other methods, or don’t have enough experience. It is supposed to happen automatically, but it produces no results.
If you would like to test it out, or use this tool once I have completed development, just go to https://querytoclip.netlify.app/
and then add ‘?clip=’ (without quotes)
Beyond what I have asked for so far, it would be nice if someone could make my code more efficient, because I am no wizard...
This may help you a little:
function getQueryVariable(variable) {
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var vars = query.split("&");
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
if (pair[0] == variable) {
return pair[1];
}
}
return (false);
}
if (getQueryVariable('list') === null) {
var clip = getQueryVariable('clip')
} else {
//Nothing
};
function copyStringToClipboard(str) {
// Create new element
var el = document.createElement('textarea');
// Set value (string to be copied)
el.value = clip;
// Set non-editable to avoid focus and move outside of view
el.setAttribute('readonly', '');
el.style = {
position: 'absolute',
left: '-9999px'
};
document.body.appendChild(el);
// Select text inside element
el.select();
el.setSelectionRange(0, 99999); /* For mobile devices */
// Copy text to clipboard
document.execCommand('copy');
// Remove temporary element
document.body.removeChild(el);
};
copyStringToClipboard(clip);
const contentDiv = document.getElementById("content");
var paragraph = document.createElement('p');
const paragraphContent = document.createTextNode("Copied successfully!");
paragraph.appendChild(paragraphContent);
document.body.insertBefore(paragraph, contentDiv);
Your code has a number of issues, but beyond that, you are going to run into some issues trying to copy to the clipboard on page load.
For security reasons, many document.execCommand commands require a user interaction (like clicking on a button). Copy is one such method. You could add a button to the page, and use #CLiown response to get something working where the page opens and you click a quick "copy" button.
For more info, read:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand
Related
I have no knowledge of JavaScript, but I managed to put this code together using bits and bolts from various Stack Overflow answers. It works OK, and it outputs an array of all selected checkboxes in a document via an alert box.
function getSelectedCheckboxes(chkboxName) {
var checkbx = [];
var chkboxes = document.getElementsByName(chkboxName);
var nr_chkboxes = chkboxes.length;
for(var i=0; i<nr_chkboxes; i++) {
if(chkboxes[i].type == 'checkbox' && chkboxes[i].checked == true) checkbx.push(chkboxes[i].value);
}
return checkbx;
}
And to call it I use:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" >Check</button>
<script>
document.getElementById('btn_test').onclick = function() {
var checkedBoxes = getSelectedCheckboxes("my_id");
alert(checkedBoxes);
}
</script>
Now I would like to modify it so when I click the btn_test button the output array checkbx is copied to the clipboard. I tried adding:
checkbx = document.execCommand("copy");
or
checkbx.execCommand("copy");
at the end of the function and then calling it like:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" onclick="getSelectedCheckboxes('my_id')">Check</button>
But it does not work. No data is copied to clipboard.
function copyToClipboard(text) {
var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
// to avoid breaking orgain page when copying more words
// cant copy when adding below this code
// dummy.style.display = 'none'
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
//Be careful if you use texarea. setAttribute('value', value), which works with "input" does not work with "textarea". – Eduard
dummy.value = text;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
copyToClipboard('hello world')
copyToClipboard('hello\nworld')
OK, I found some time and followed the suggestion by Teemu and I was able to get exactly what I wanted.
So here is the final code for anyone that might be interested. For clarification, this code gets all checked checkboxes of a certain ID, outputs them in an array, named here checkbx, and then copies their unique name to the clipboard.
JavaScript function:
function getSelectedCheckboxes(chkboxName) {
var checkbx = [];
var chkboxes = document.getElementsByName(chkboxName);
var nr_chkboxes = chkboxes.length;
for(var i=0; i<nr_chkboxes; i++) {
if(chkboxes[i].type == 'checkbox' && chkboxes[i].checked == true) checkbx.push(chkboxes[i].value);
}
checkbx.toString();
// Create a dummy input to copy the string array inside it
var dummy = document.createElement("input");
// Add it to the document
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
// Set its ID
dummy.setAttribute("id", "dummy_id");
// Output the array into it
document.getElementById("dummy_id").value=checkbx;
// Select it
dummy.select();
// Copy its contents
document.execCommand("copy");
// Remove it as its not needed anymore
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
And its HTML call:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" onclick="getSelectedCheckboxes('ID_of_chkbxs_selected')">Copy</button>
For general purposes of copying any text to the clipboard, I wrote the following function:
function textToClipboard (text) {
var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
dummy.value = text;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
The value of the parameter is inserted into value of a newly created <textarea>, which is then selected, its value is copied to the clipboard and then it gets removed from the document.
Very useful. I modified it to copy a JavaScript variable value to clipboard:
function copyToClipboard(val){
var dummy = document.createElement("input");
dummy.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
dummy.setAttribute("id", "dummy_id");
document.getElementById("dummy_id").value=val;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
When you need to copy a variable to the clipboard in the Chrome dev console, you can simply use the copy() command.
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/command-line-reference#copyobject
I managed to copy text to the clipboard (without showing any text boxes) by adding a hidden input element to body, i.e.:
function copy(txt){
var cb = document.getElementById("cb");
cb.value = txt;
cb.style.display='block';
cb.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
cb.style.display='none';
}
<button onclick="copy('Hello Clipboard!')"> copy </button>
<input id="cb" type="text" hidden>
Use Clipboard API
text = "HEllo World";
navigator.clipboard.writeText(text)
It works on Chrome 66+, Edge 79+, Firefox 63+ & doesn't work on I.E.
Read More About Clipboard API At MDN Docs
Nowadays there is a new(ish) API to do this directly. It works on modern browsers and on HTTPS (and localhost) only. Not supported by IE11.
IE11 has its own API.
And the workaround in the accepted answer can be used for unsecure hosts.
function copyToClipboard (text) {
if (navigator.clipboard) { // default: modern asynchronous API
return navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
} else if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.setData) { // for IE11
window.clipboardData.setData('Text', text);
return Promise.resolve();
} else {
// workaround: create dummy input
const input = h('input', { type: 'text' });
input.value = text;
document.body.append(input);
input.focus();
input.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
input.remove();
return Promise.resolve();
}
}
Note: it uses Hyperscript to create the input element (but should be easy to adapt)
There is no need to make the input invisible, as it is added and removed so fast. Also when hidden (even using some clever method) some browsers will detect it and prevent the copy operation.
At the time of writing, setting display:none on the element didn't work for me. Setting the element's width and height to 0 did not work either. So the element has to be at least 1px in width for this to work.
The following example worked in Chrome and Firefox:
const str = 'Copy me';
const el = document.createElement("input");
// Does not work:
// dummy.style.display = "none";
el.style.height = '0px';
// Does not work:
// el.style.width = '0px';
el.style.width = '1px';
document.body.appendChild(el);
el.value = str;
el.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(el);
I'd like to add that I can see why the browsers are trying to prevent this hackish approach. It's better to openly show the content you are going copy into the user's browser. But sometimes there are design requirements, we can't change.
I just want to add, if someone wants to copy two different inputs to clipboard. I also used the technique of putting it to a variable then put the text of the variable from the two inputs into a text area.
Note: the code below is from a user asking how to copy multiple user inputs into clipboard. I just fixed it to work correctly. So expect some old style like the use of var instead of let or const. I also recommend to use addEventListener for the button.
function doCopy() {
try{
var unique = document.querySelectorAll('.unique');
var msg ="";
unique.forEach(function (unique) {
msg+=unique.value;
});
var temp =document.createElement("textarea");
var tempMsg = document.createTextNode(msg);
temp.appendChild(tempMsg);
document.body.appendChild(temp);
temp.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(temp);
console.log("Success!")
}
catch(err) {
console.log("There was an error copying");
}
}
<input type="text" class="unique" size="9" value="SESA / D-ID:" readonly/>
<input type="text" class="unique" size="18" value="">
<button id="copybtn" onclick="doCopy()"> Copy to clipboard </button>
function CopyText(toCopy, message) {
var body = $(window.document.body);
var textarea = $('<textarea/>');
textarea.css({
position: 'fixed',
opacity: '0'
});
textarea.val(toCopy);
body.append(textarea);
textarea[0].select();
try {
var successful = document.execCommand('copy');
if (!successful)
throw successful;
else
alert(message);
} catch (err) {
window.prompt("Copy to clipboard: Ctrl+C, Enter", toCopy);
}
textarea.remove();
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button type="button" onClick="CopyText('Hello World', 'Text copped!!')">Copy</button>
I quickly put together a small piece of code to fetch and modify a string from a class on a webpage (chrome extension).
The code works Fine on the first runtime, but if I navigate the webpage to a new company where the class text is changing, the code stops to work correctly (it returns the values from the first runtime)
If I refresh the page or open it up in a new tab it works fine again.
I am 100% new to javascript, I have no clue how to fix this.
Sidenote: Is there a way for me to ask the user a boolean question on runtime, and depending on the answer return either the partname or the finalpart string to the clipboard?
// content.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
function (request, sender, sendResponse) {
if (request.message === "clicked_browser_action") {
var wholeName = document.getElementsByClassName('ng-binding ng-scope')[0].innerHTML;
var partName = wholeName.substring(0, 4)
var finalPart = "m" + partName.substring(0, 1) + "a" + partName.substring(2, 1) + "x" + partName.substring(3, 2) + "X" + partName.substring(3, 4)
copyStringToClipboard(finalPart);
}
}
);
function copyStringToClipboard(str) {
// Create new element
var el = document.createElement('textarea');
// Set value (string to be copied)
el.value = str;
// Set non-editable to avoid focus and move outside of view
el.setAttribute('readonly', '');
el.style = { position: 'absolute', left: '-9999px' };
document.body.appendChild(el);
// Select text inside element
el.select();
// Copy text to clipboard
document.execCommand('copy');
// Remove temporary element
document.body.removeChild(el);
}
Is there any cross-platform, or even mostly cross-platform, way to copy text to the clipboard in JavaScript without making an element, putting it on the page, and then selecting the text? How do the websites with "Copy to clipboard" buttons do it? I don't want it to use input fields because the idea is to copy anything into the clipboard, even stuff that may not be in an element.
I believe these days you can use navigator.clipboard if you only care about this working in modern versions of chrome, firefox, edge and opera.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard
e.g.
var amazingText = "Hello World! How sweet the content";
navigator.clipboard.writeText(amazingText);
Your best best for safari, ie,old browsers and anything else support is to check if navigator.clipboard is defined and have a fallback to the old inefficient create throw away element select and copy as a last resort.
I have used this mainly when there is a reasonably large about of data to copy to the clipboard as i have noticed performance issues with the select and exec methods.
Edit*
I briefly looked on the clipboard.js website as suggested and there is a sentence which says "This library relies on both Selection and execCommand APIs." which suggests perhaps it does not provide answer the question. However I have not looked at the source to verify this assumption.
https://clipboardjs.com/#browser-support
Hope this is what you looking for.
document.getElementById("copyButton").addEventListener("click", function() {
copyToClipboard(document.getElementById("txt"));
});
setInterval(function(){
document.getElementById("txt").innerHTML = "Copy Me!!! # " + new Date().getTime();
},1000);
function copyToClipboard(elem) {
// create hidden text element, if it doesn't already exist
var targetId = "_hiddenCopyText_";
var isInput = elem.tagName === "INPUT" || elem.tagName === "TEXTAREA";
var origSelectionStart, origSelectionEnd;
if (isInput) {
// can just use the original source element for the selection and copy
target = elem;
origSelectionStart = elem.selectionStart;
origSelectionEnd = elem.selectionEnd;
} else {
// must use a temporary form element for the selection and copy
target = document.getElementById(targetId);
if (!target) {
var target = document.createElement("textarea");
target.style.position = "absolute";
target.style.left = "-9999px";
target.style.top = "0";
target.id = targetId;
document.body.appendChild(target);
}
target.textContent = elem.textContent;
}
// select the content
var currentFocus = document.activeElement;
target.focus();
target.setSelectionRange(0, target.value.length);
// copy the selection
var succeed;
try {
succeed = document.execCommand("copy");
} catch(e) {
succeed = false;
}
// restore original focus
if (currentFocus && typeof currentFocus.focus === "function") {
currentFocus.focus();
}
if (isInput) {
// restore prior selection
elem.setSelectionRange(origSelectionStart, origSelectionEnd);
} else {
// clear temporary content
target.textContent = "";
}
return succeed;
}
input {
width: 400px;
}
<div id="txt">copy me!!!</div><br><br><button id="copyButton">Copy</button><br><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="Click here and press Ctrl-V to see clipboard contents">
You can try Clipboard.js, plenty of examples out there.
I have no knowledge of JavaScript, but I managed to put this code together using bits and bolts from various Stack Overflow answers. It works OK, and it outputs an array of all selected checkboxes in a document via an alert box.
function getSelectedCheckboxes(chkboxName) {
var checkbx = [];
var chkboxes = document.getElementsByName(chkboxName);
var nr_chkboxes = chkboxes.length;
for(var i=0; i<nr_chkboxes; i++) {
if(chkboxes[i].type == 'checkbox' && chkboxes[i].checked == true) checkbx.push(chkboxes[i].value);
}
return checkbx;
}
And to call it I use:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" >Check</button>
<script>
document.getElementById('btn_test').onclick = function() {
var checkedBoxes = getSelectedCheckboxes("my_id");
alert(checkedBoxes);
}
</script>
Now I would like to modify it so when I click the btn_test button the output array checkbx is copied to the clipboard. I tried adding:
checkbx = document.execCommand("copy");
or
checkbx.execCommand("copy");
at the end of the function and then calling it like:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" onclick="getSelectedCheckboxes('my_id')">Check</button>
But it does not work. No data is copied to clipboard.
function copyToClipboard(text) {
var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
// to avoid breaking orgain page when copying more words
// cant copy when adding below this code
// dummy.style.display = 'none'
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
//Be careful if you use texarea. setAttribute('value', value), which works with "input" does not work with "textarea". – Eduard
dummy.value = text;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
copyToClipboard('hello world')
copyToClipboard('hello\nworld')
OK, I found some time and followed the suggestion by Teemu and I was able to get exactly what I wanted.
So here is the final code for anyone that might be interested. For clarification, this code gets all checked checkboxes of a certain ID, outputs them in an array, named here checkbx, and then copies their unique name to the clipboard.
JavaScript function:
function getSelectedCheckboxes(chkboxName) {
var checkbx = [];
var chkboxes = document.getElementsByName(chkboxName);
var nr_chkboxes = chkboxes.length;
for(var i=0; i<nr_chkboxes; i++) {
if(chkboxes[i].type == 'checkbox' && chkboxes[i].checked == true) checkbx.push(chkboxes[i].value);
}
checkbx.toString();
// Create a dummy input to copy the string array inside it
var dummy = document.createElement("input");
// Add it to the document
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
// Set its ID
dummy.setAttribute("id", "dummy_id");
// Output the array into it
document.getElementById("dummy_id").value=checkbx;
// Select it
dummy.select();
// Copy its contents
document.execCommand("copy");
// Remove it as its not needed anymore
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
And its HTML call:
<button id="btn_test" type="button" onclick="getSelectedCheckboxes('ID_of_chkbxs_selected')">Copy</button>
For general purposes of copying any text to the clipboard, I wrote the following function:
function textToClipboard (text) {
var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
dummy.value = text;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
The value of the parameter is inserted into value of a newly created <textarea>, which is then selected, its value is copied to the clipboard and then it gets removed from the document.
Very useful. I modified it to copy a JavaScript variable value to clipboard:
function copyToClipboard(val){
var dummy = document.createElement("input");
dummy.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(dummy);
dummy.setAttribute("id", "dummy_id");
document.getElementById("dummy_id").value=val;
dummy.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
When you need to copy a variable to the clipboard in the Chrome dev console, you can simply use the copy() command.
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/command-line-reference#copyobject
I managed to copy text to the clipboard (without showing any text boxes) by adding a hidden input element to body, i.e.:
function copy(txt){
var cb = document.getElementById("cb");
cb.value = txt;
cb.style.display='block';
cb.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
cb.style.display='none';
}
<button onclick="copy('Hello Clipboard!')"> copy </button>
<input id="cb" type="text" hidden>
Use Clipboard API
text = "HEllo World";
navigator.clipboard.writeText(text)
It works on Chrome 66+, Edge 79+, Firefox 63+ & doesn't work on I.E.
Read More About Clipboard API At MDN Docs
Nowadays there is a new(ish) API to do this directly. It works on modern browsers and on HTTPS (and localhost) only. Not supported by IE11.
IE11 has its own API.
And the workaround in the accepted answer can be used for unsecure hosts.
function copyToClipboard (text) {
if (navigator.clipboard) { // default: modern asynchronous API
return navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
} else if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.setData) { // for IE11
window.clipboardData.setData('Text', text);
return Promise.resolve();
} else {
// workaround: create dummy input
const input = h('input', { type: 'text' });
input.value = text;
document.body.append(input);
input.focus();
input.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
input.remove();
return Promise.resolve();
}
}
Note: it uses Hyperscript to create the input element (but should be easy to adapt)
There is no need to make the input invisible, as it is added and removed so fast. Also when hidden (even using some clever method) some browsers will detect it and prevent the copy operation.
At the time of writing, setting display:none on the element didn't work for me. Setting the element's width and height to 0 did not work either. So the element has to be at least 1px in width for this to work.
The following example worked in Chrome and Firefox:
const str = 'Copy me';
const el = document.createElement("input");
// Does not work:
// dummy.style.display = "none";
el.style.height = '0px';
// Does not work:
// el.style.width = '0px';
el.style.width = '1px';
document.body.appendChild(el);
el.value = str;
el.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(el);
I'd like to add that I can see why the browsers are trying to prevent this hackish approach. It's better to openly show the content you are going copy into the user's browser. But sometimes there are design requirements, we can't change.
I just want to add, if someone wants to copy two different inputs to clipboard. I also used the technique of putting it to a variable then put the text of the variable from the two inputs into a text area.
Note: the code below is from a user asking how to copy multiple user inputs into clipboard. I just fixed it to work correctly. So expect some old style like the use of var instead of let or const. I also recommend to use addEventListener for the button.
function doCopy() {
try{
var unique = document.querySelectorAll('.unique');
var msg ="";
unique.forEach(function (unique) {
msg+=unique.value;
});
var temp =document.createElement("textarea");
var tempMsg = document.createTextNode(msg);
temp.appendChild(tempMsg);
document.body.appendChild(temp);
temp.select();
document.execCommand("copy");
document.body.removeChild(temp);
console.log("Success!")
}
catch(err) {
console.log("There was an error copying");
}
}
<input type="text" class="unique" size="9" value="SESA / D-ID:" readonly/>
<input type="text" class="unique" size="18" value="">
<button id="copybtn" onclick="doCopy()"> Copy to clipboard </button>
function CopyText(toCopy, message) {
var body = $(window.document.body);
var textarea = $('<textarea/>');
textarea.css({
position: 'fixed',
opacity: '0'
});
textarea.val(toCopy);
body.append(textarea);
textarea[0].select();
try {
var successful = document.execCommand('copy');
if (!successful)
throw successful;
else
alert(message);
} catch (err) {
window.prompt("Copy to clipboard: Ctrl+C, Enter", toCopy);
}
textarea.remove();
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button type="button" onClick="CopyText('Hello World', 'Text copped!!')">Copy</button>
I'm trying to place a google news search within a div on my site. I'm currently using the script google provides, but am a novice at Ajax/JavaScript. I am able to display the most recent stories from google news, but don't know how to have it display within a div let alone manipulate the style with CSS. Below is the code I'm using. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('search', '1');
var newsSearch;
function searchComplete() {
// Check that we got results
document.getElementById('averagecontainer').innerHTML = '';
if (newsSearch.results && newsSearch.results.length > 0) {
for (var i = 0; i < newsSearch.results.length; i++) {
// Create HTML elements for search results
var p = document.createElement('p');
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = newsSearch.results[i].url;
a.innerHTML = newsSearch.results[i].title;
// Append search results to the HTML nodes
p.appendChild(a);
document.body.appendChild(p);
}
}
}
function onLoad() {
// Create a News Search instance.
newsSearch = new google.search.NewsSearch();
// Set searchComplete as the callback function when a search is
// complete. The newsSearch object will have results in it.
newsSearch.setSearchCompleteCallback(this, searchComplete, null);
// Specify search quer(ies)
newsSearch.execute('Barack Obama');
// Include the required Google branding
google.search.Search.getBranding('branding');
}
// Set a callback to call your code when the page loads
google.setOnLoadCallback(onLoad);
</script>
If I understand correctly, this is what you need:
Create the <div> and give it an ID:
<div id="your-div">HERE BE NEWS</div>
Then modify the searchComplete funcion like this:
function searchComplete() {
var container = document.getElementById('your-div');
container.innerHTML = '';
if (newsSearch.results && newsSearch.results.length > 0) {
for (var i = 0; i < newsSearch.results.length; i++) {
// Create HTML elements for search results
var p = document.createElement('p');
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = newsSearch.results[i].url;
a.innerHTML = newsSearch.results[i].title;
// Append search results to the HTML nodes
p.appendChild(a);
container.appendChild(p);
}
}
}
As for style manipulation, you can match the elements by the given ID in css. For example like this:
#your-div a {
font-weight: bold;
}
EDIT:
To show you that this is working, I have created a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/enjkG/
There is not a lot of things you can mess up here. I think you may have a syntactic error and did not check the console for errors.