Christian Heilmann

An easy way to copy + paste from the browser Console #shorts

Monday, February 6th, 2023 at 3:31 pm

Copying and pasting from Console is annoying but there is a better way. The Console variable $_ contains the last result. You can use this with the copy() command to copy the data to the clipboard without having to highlight it.

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