Cannot use `document.execCommand(‘copy’);` from developer console

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document.execCommand('copy') must be triggered by the user. It’s not only from the console, it’s anywhere that’s not inside an event triggered by the user. See below, the click event will return true, but a call without event won’t and a call in a dispatched event also.

console.log('no event', document.execCommand('bold'));

document.getElementById('test').addEventListener('click', function(){
    console.log('user click', document.execCommand('copy'));
});

document.getElementById('test').addEventListener('fakeclick', function(){
    console.log('fake click', document.execCommand('copy'));
});


var event = new Event('fakeclick')

document.getElementById('test').dispatchEvent(event) ;
<div id="test">click</ha>

See here:https://w3c.github.io/editing/execCommand.html#dfn-the-copy-command

Copy commands triggered from document.execCommand() will only affect
the contents of the real clipboard if the event is dispatched from an
event that is trusted and triggered by the user, or if the
implementation is configured to allow this. How implementations can be
configured to allow write access to the clipboard is outside the scope
of this specification.

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