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I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting Ctrl+C to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting Ctrl+C to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd><kbd>C</kbd> to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting Ctrl+C to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting Ctrl-C to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

P.S: - Javascript ignoramus here.

I'm trying to write a little bookmarklet that can extract some text from the active page and load that into the clipboard.

The extraction is easy enough, but I'm really stuck doing the clipboard-copying part. Currently, I'm just alerting the text and hitting <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd><kbd>C</kbd> to copy the text from the message-box, which isn't ideal.

I've read How to Copy to Clipboard in JavaScript and other questions that suggest I use zeroclipboard, but I have no idea how one would make that work from a bookmarklet, considering I have to load external flash and javascript resources to be able to use the library.

I have no issues with messing up the page's DOM to accomplish this or having to enable some permissions on my browser (Google Chrome), considering this is just a private bookmarklet.

Any pointers would be appreciated.