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Selection Reference | HTML Editing APIs
- Each selection is associated with a single range.
  - Originally, the Selection interface was a Netscape feature … multi-range selections proved to be an unpleasant corner case … restricting selections to at most one range. This explains oddities like the coexistence of removeRange() and removeAllRanges(), and a getRangeAt() method that takes an integer argument that must always be zero.
- The copy command
- Clipboard API and events
Mozilla docs
- selection
  - selectAllChildren
- range
Selections
- range
StackOverflow answers
- EnybyClipboard
- Oliver Bock

Snippets

selection.selectAllChildren(text);

// This is my current solution.

function set_clipboard_text(text) {
  console.log("CKCK: Setting clipboard text: %s", text);

  // This method uses a temporary DOM node.  We'll use a div here.
  var node = document.createElement("div"); 
  node.textContent = text;
  document.body.appendChild(node);

  // Select the new node
  var selection = window.getSelection();
  selection.selectAllChildren(node);  // This automatically loses the previous selection.

  // Could alternatively also use:
  //
  //   var selection = window.getSelection();
  //   var range = document.createRange();
  //   range.selectNodeContents(text);
  //   selection.removeAllRanges();
  //   selection.addRange(range);

  // Perform the copy.
  document.execCommand("copy", false, null);

  // Now get rid of this temp node.
  document.body.removeChild(node); 
}