Copy output of a JavaScript variable to the clipboard

For general purposes of copying any text to the clipboard, I wrote the following function:

function textToClipboard (text) {
    var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
    document.body.appendChild(dummy);
    dummy.value = text;
    dummy.select();
    document.execCommand("copy");
    document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}

The value of the parameter is inserted into value of a newly created <textarea>, which is then selected, its value is copied to the clipboard and then it gets removed from the document.

function copyToClipboard(text) {
    var dummy = document.createElement("textarea");
    // to avoid breaking orgain page when copying more words
    // cant copy when adding below this code
    // dummy.style.display = 'none'
    document.body.appendChild(dummy);
    //Be careful if you use texarea. setAttribute('value', value), which works with "input" does not work with "textarea". – Eduard
    dummy.value = text;
    dummy.select();
    document.execCommand("copy");
    document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}
copyToClipboard('hello world')
copyToClipboard('hello\nworld')

OK, I found some time and followed the suggestion by Teemu and I was able to get exactly what I wanted.

So here is the final code for anyone that might be interested. For clarification, this code gets all checked checkboxes of a certain ID, outputs them in an array, named here checkbx, and then copies their unique name to the clipboard.

JavaScript function:

function getSelectedCheckboxes(chkboxName) {
  var checkbx = [];
  var chkboxes = document.getElementsByName(chkboxName);
  var nr_chkboxes = chkboxes.length;
  for(var i=0; i<nr_chkboxes; i++) {
    if(chkboxes[i].type == 'checkbox' && chkboxes[i].checked == true) checkbx.push(chkboxes[i].value);
  }
  checkbx.toString();

  // Create a dummy input to copy the string array inside it
  var dummy = document.createElement("input");

  // Add it to the document
  document.body.appendChild(dummy);

  // Set its ID
  dummy.setAttribute("id", "dummy_id");

  // Output the array into it
  document.getElementById("dummy_id").value=checkbx;

  // Select it
  dummy.select();

  // Copy its contents
  document.execCommand("copy");

  // Remove it as its not needed anymore
  document.body.removeChild(dummy);
}

And its HTML call:

<button id="btn_test" type="button" onclick="getSelectedCheckboxes('ID_of_chkbxs_selected')">Copy</button>