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[dektek11]

On certain sites it will output information into a field that is automatically highlighted and has a button to copy to clipboard. Does anyone know how to set that up? (with auto-highlight or a highlight and/or copy button)

[BlobFisk]

AFAIK this is something that you can only do in IE and uses an MS method called execCommand.

function copyToClipboard(textareaID) {
// Get the text in the textarea
theText = document.getElementById(textareaID).innerText;
// Create a textRange for the clipboad
copyText = theText.createTextRange();
// Remove any formatting, this allows you to copy code etc.!
copyText.execCommand("RemoveFormat");
// Copy the text to the clipboard
copyText.execCommand("Copy");
}

More on execCommand can be found on MSDN [msdn.microsoft.com].

HTH