Is it possible to just copy a text to clipboard without involving any html elements?

[mbonaci]

When I say "involving HTML elements" I'm referring to the first param of the constructor.
I see that the library works by creating a fake input area element and then executing document.execCommand, but why is it necessary to be bound to some other trigger element if I just want to place some text in the clipboard?

I think the library would benefit from having a static method Clipboard.setClipboardText(text: string) which does the heavy lifting around clipboard without necessitating involvement of an additional HTML element.
WDYT?

[ProjectLinde37]

I think this script does not.
I use

function copyText(text) { const listener = function (ev) { ev.preventDefault(); ev.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', text); }; document.addEventListener('copy', listener); document.execCommand('copy'); document.removeEventListener('copy', listener); }

function copyRichText(text) { const listener = function (ev) { ev.preventDefault(); ev.clipboardData.setData('text/html', text); ev.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', text); }; document.addEventListener('copy', listener); document.execCommand('copy'); document.removeEventListener('copy', listener); }

[mbonaci]

I've since switched to clipboard-copy which has the API I was looking for.
I'm guessing the last sentence in the API paragraph explains why this limitation might exist is copy-to-clipboard libraries in general:

Note: in most browsers, copying to the clipboard is only allowed if copy() is triggered in direct response to a user gesture like a 'click' or a 'keypress'.