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Hello,<br />
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How can I design and make a button (using javascript) such that, when clicked would:<br />
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1. Highlight the text in a textarea box<br />
2. Copy it to the clipboard<br />
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I searched the web but could not find an easy feasible solution.<br />
<br />
Much thanks and appreciation for everyones help and support
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Hello,

How can I design and make a button (using javascript) such that, when clicked would:

1. Highlight the text in a textarea box
2. Copy it to the clipboard

I searched the web but could not find an easy feasible solution.

Much thanks and appreciation for everyones help and support

Copying Contents from a TextArea to Clipboard using Javascript

Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, and social network services using a wide variety of languages and standards, including the familiar HTML, JavaScript and jQuery, ASP and ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion, CSS, PHP, Flex and Flash, but also the implementation of a broad list of standards including XML, WSDL, SSDL, VoiceXML and many more.

Web Languages and Standards

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.