How to use JavaScript to copy the text in a textarea to clipboard in Chrome?

Question

I have a textarea tag and have a button. What I want is when I click the button, the text in that textarea will be copied into my clipboard.

I am using this in a Chrome Extension.

Thanks for any kind of help!

score -3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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function CopyToClipboard(text) {
    Copied = text.createTextRange();
    Copied.execCommand("Copy");
}

textareaObject.value="text"

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Nov 03 '12 at 15:46

Matt Olan

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