How to more easily copy & paste from e.g. a {code} block?

Simon Hardy-Francis

Let's say I have a {code}echo my line of code{code} block. If the reader wants to copy and paste the 'mycode' text from the wiki page then they must do it with the mouse etc. Very fiddly if doing often. Is there a way to provide some sort of icon which when pressed simply copies the contents of the code block into the copy and paste buffer? Or maybe there is a non-{code} block alternative?

Thomas Wendel

Hi Simon,

As far as I know, double-clicking into the code block will at least select all the code.

Copy/Paste functionality is always a bit tricky to implement into web applications, although possible. Most browsers prohibit the copy/paste functionality as it is a security vulnerability if a web page can read a visitors clipboard. Therefore in Firefox, the user has to tweak the about:config to let JavaScript read and write the local clipboard. Other methods use Java applets to interact with the local clipboard, which is also not nice. So I think this is the reason, why such a click-to-copy button has not been implemented into the {code}-macro yet.

So double-clicking might be your best option so far.

Cheers,

Thomas