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Copy-code button

sorry if this is a repeat, searching for 'copy' and 'code' doesn't yield anything useful!

I think it would be great to have a javascript button next to any CODE section to quick select all that code and copy it to the local buffer, for easy pasting/testing.

Additionally, there are quite a few great syntax highlighters out there these days for more relaxed reading.

Just a suggestion why this may not be happening, interacting with the clipboard is by some a little bit of a security no no. With that said I have used JavaScript to do this exact thing, though I think it only worked in IE in Windows. It has been several years so maybe things have changed, but this is the JavaScript I used.

Code:

function ClipBoard() {

  build('document.note.pad');

  selectAll('note.pad');

  //set the clipboard

  var Tex = document.getElementById("pad").value;

  window.clipboardData.setData("Text",Tex);

}

function select() {

  selectAll('note.pad');

}

BTW I think these are great suggestions.

wow. that is awesome.

nice job!

Thanks for the feedback. We don't have any plans to incorporate javascript-based copy, but the PHP code tag does do some syntax highlighting.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...?do=bbcode#php

--jeremy