document.execCommand("Copy");

Regards

Joe Fawcett



>From: "Alex Shiell, ITS, EC, SE" <alex.shiell@s...>
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] copy browser selection to clibboard
>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:10:03 -0000
>
>I can select the contents of my page with this code:
>
>var r = document.body.createTextRange();
>r.findText(document.body.innerText);
>r.select();
>
>but now how can I copy it?
>
>The only thing I can find is
>
>window.clipboardData.setData("Text",document.body.innerHTML);
>
>but this displays strange behaviour in that it only seems to work if the
>user hasn't manually copied anything from the page.  Also a manual copy and
>paste (which I am trying to emulate) preservers formatting nicely, which 
>the
>above method doesn't.
>
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