diff --git a/files/assets/js/formatting.js b/files/assets/js/formatting.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32cd3ed72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/assets/js/formatting.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+/* addFormattingCopyButtons(): creates a button in the first column of each row of a table
+ that copies the text in the second column of that row */
+function addFormattingCopyButtons() {
+ var allTablesGenerateCopyButtons = document.getElementsByClassName('generate-copy-buttons')
+
+ for (let table = 0; table < allTablesGenerateCopyButtons.length; table++) {
+
+ if(allTablesGenerateCopyButtons[table].tagName != 'TABLE') {
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ for (var i = 1, row; row = allTablesGenerateCopyButtons[table].rows[i]; i++) {
+
+ let textCopyButton = document.createElement("button");
+ textCopyButton.setAttribute("type", "button");
+ textCopyButton.className = "btn caction py-0 nobackground px-1 text-muted copy-link";
+
+ /* replace HTML newlines with text newlines */
+ var cleanedText = row.cells[1].cloneNode(true)
+ cleanedText.innerHTML = cleanedText.innerHTML.replace(/
/gi, "\n")
+ /* remove lots of extraneous tabs */
+ cleanedText = cleanedText.textContent.replace(/\t/g,'');
+ textCopyButton.setAttribute("data-clipboard-text", cleanedText);
+
+ copyIcon = document.createElement("i");
+ copyIcon.className = "fas fa-copy";
+
+ textCopyButton.insertAdjacentElement('afterbegin', copyIcon)
+ row.cells[0].appendChild(textCopyButton);
+ }
+ }
+
+
+}
+
+addFormattingCopyButtons();
diff --git a/files/templates/formatting.html b/files/templates/formatting.html
index 70aedc200..24accb0d2 100644
--- a/files/templates/formatting.html
+++ b/files/templates/formatting.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
You can use Markdown formatting:
-