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!

Answer 1

To copy text ...

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

To get the text ...

textareaObject.value="text"