10 lines to copy any text to the clipboard

[Trishul Goel]

Hi Damien,

Refer following
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Interact_with_the_clipboard

May be this can help :)

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Damien Cassou <damien at cassou.me> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like my add-on to add some text to the clipboard. The code of my
> extension to do that is quite complex:
>
>     /**
>      * Copy `text` to the clipboard
>      */
>     function copyText (text) {
>       let textarea = document.createElement('textarea')
>       textarea.textContent = text
>
>       // hide the textarea
>       textarea.setAttribute('style', 'height: 0 !important; width: 0
> !important; border: none !important; z-index: -9999999;')
>       document.querySelector('body').appendChild(textarea)
>
>       textarea.select()
>       document.execCommand('Copy')
>       textarea.remove()
>     }
>
> Is there a simpler way?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Damien Cassou
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>
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-- 
Cheers,
Trishul Goel
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