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HTML

              
                <h1>Copy to clipboard from a data source (array)</h1>
<div id="trigger">Copy to clipboard</div>

<textarea name="clipboardTextarea" id="clipboardTextarea"></textarea>

              
            
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CSS

              
                #clipboardTextarea {
  overflow: hidden;
  max-height: 0px;
  max-width: 0px;
  resize: none;
  border: none;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0px;
  right: 0px;
  z-index: -10;
}
#clipboardTextarea:focus {
  outline: none;
}

/*simple demo styles*/
#trigger {
  padding: 1em;
  background-color: green;
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 10px;
  color: white;
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#trigger:hover {
  cursor: pointer;
}
h1 {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

              
            
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JS

              
                // First, dynamically produce a list as an array. In my use case I programmed an array from other application data to yield a list of grocery items
var myList = [
  "egg x10",
  "basmati rice 300g",
  "banana x7",
  "apple x1",
  "onion x2"
];
//Have a play around with the array values

//will need a dom element to use execCommand but will hide with css from the user
var myTarget = document.getElementById("clipboardTextarea");

function createListOutput() {
  console.log('output fired')
  var myListOutput = "";
  for (var i = 0; i < myList.length; i++) {
    //check if list is NOT the last in the array, if last don't output a line break
    if (i != myList.length - 1) {
      let lineItem = myList[i] + "\n";
      myListOutput = myListOutput + lineItem;
    } else {
      let lineItem = myList[i];
      myListOutput = myListOutput + lineItem;
    }
  }
  myTarget.value = myListOutput;
  myTarget.select();
  myTarget.setSelectionRange(0, 99999); //for mobile
  document.execCommand("copy");
  console.log("Copied to clipboard"); //could respond with some visual feedback to user
  alert("Copied to clipboard");
}

document.getElementById("trigger").addEventListener("click", createListOutput, false);
              
            
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