How To Copy Markup - Not Just Plain Text - To The Clipboard Using Legacy Free Javascript

The complete content of a

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that mar

Solution 1:

I used to solve this problem using a fake textarea element copying my custom text into the clipboard.

Something like this should help:

const copyText = document.querySelector("myElement").innerHTML;
copyToClipboard(copyText);   


functioncopyToClipboard(message) {
        let textArea = document.createElement("textarea");
        textArea.value = message;
        document.body.appendChild(textArea);
        textArea.select();
        document.execCommand("copy");
        document.body.removeChild(textArea);
    }

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