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I am javascript illiterate.

This may not be possible, but I don't know so I'm asking the question.

Background:

When you left click, hold and highlight text then right click you get a context menu with copy as one of the options. I have a menu which has a 'designable' right click context menu option, i.e. colors, background, images etc. It contains many of the usual options, back, forward, refresh, print plus some custom things, like link to the home page. You can add to it, for example if you know the function needed, you could place a function for opening a link in a new window, add that text Open in a New Window and when a link is right clicked you would get that as an option on the context menu and when you clicked that it would 'call' the function that 'read the url and implemented the target=_new with that link.

OK, I want to know if there is a way to get the copy and paste options onto that menu. I know how to put the words in, I know how to call the function [I just studied how it was done for the open in a new window option] The problem is, I don't know if there is a function for copying highlighted text. I have searched and found a number of functions, most talk about copying textarea, copying from one text area to another, copying specified text, [ text that is inside a span with an ID] to the clipboard. I even found a script that will allow copyToClipBoard for Moz/Nets and IE - [ Register or login to view links on this board.] but when I tried that one I get a 'meintext' is not defined, whatever that means. I don't know anything about functions, is it possible to create functions for the copy and paste?

Thanks so much for any help.

Ruth