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Plugin or Method in Confluence to click on the text and the text is highlighted and copied.

Tony Montana
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December 6, 2021

Hello!

 

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I have a big-big text in confluence. I want to be able to click on this text, then this text will be selected and copied to the clipboard.

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December 6, 2021

Confluence doesn't have a "copy to clipboard" macro, but if you have HTML enabled you could customize the page with your own html macro (which you can paste js/css into as well), e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45071353/copy-text-string-on-click has a few examples how this could be done.

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Fabian Lim
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December 6, 2021

Hi @Tony Montana

Why don't you just use ctrl+c or cmd+c?

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December 6, 2021

Or right-click  -> copy?

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December 7, 2021

@Bill Bailey @Fabian Lim Because text very long: 1 billion symbols

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December 7, 2021

If it encased in p tags, then triple clicking the text will select the entire paragraph.

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