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Bookmarklet to copy current page title and url in Markdown format to clipboard, like [title](url) - Usual for posting links to resources in README.md files
javascript:(function() {
function copyToClipboard(text) {
if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.setData) {
/*IE specific code path to prevent textarea being shown while dialog is visible.*/
return clipboardData.setData("Text", text);
} else if (document.queryCommandSupported && document.queryCommandSupported("copy")) {
var textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
textarea.textContent = text;
textarea.style.position = "fixed"; /* Prevent scrolling to bottom of page in MS Edge.*/
document.body.appendChild(textarea);
textarea.select();
try {
return document.execCommand("copy"); /* Security exception may be thrown by some browsers.*/
} catch (ex) {
console.warn("Copy to clipboard failed.", ex);
return false;
} finally {
document.body.removeChild(textarea);
}
}
}
var markdown = '[' + document.title + '](' + window.location.href + ')';
copyToClipboard(markdown);
})();
@wuzhizhi22
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it is so great convenient!bravo

@djsnipa1
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I use this simple web tool, Bookmarklet Creator with Script Includer - Peter Coles, to convert the code to a bookmarklet. After that, this is working great! 👍🏼 I’m on iOS Safari.

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