diff --git a/docs/javascript/fix-codeblock-console-copy-button.js b/docs/javascript/fix-codeblock-console-copy-button.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e81c845
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/javascript/fix-codeblock-console-copy-button.js
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
+  fixCopyOnlyUserSelectable();
+});
+
+function fixCopyOnlyUserSelectable() {
+  buttonsToFix = document.querySelectorAll(
+    '.language-console button.md-clipboard');
+  if (buttonsToFix.length)
+    console.log('Fixing copy-to-clipboard text of console code-blocks.');
+  buttonsToFix.forEach((btn) => {
+    var content = extractUserSelectable(btn.dataset.clipboardTarget);
+    btn.dataset.clipboardText = content;
+  });
+}
+
+function extractUserSelectable(selector) {
+  var result = '';
+  var element = document.querySelector(selector);
+
+  // Attempt to remove the non-selectable sections based on style,
+  // but we haven't seen this work reliably...
+  element.childNodes.forEach((child) => {
+    if (child instanceof Element) {
+      var s=window.getComputedStyle(child);
+      if (s.getPropertyValue('user-select') == 'none' ||
+        s.getPropertyValue('-webkit-user-select') == 'none' ||
+        s.getPropertyValue('-ms-user-select') == 'none')
+      {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    result += child.textContent;
+  });
+
+  // ... so we fall back to simple but effective:
+  // remove "$ " and "# " prompt at start of lines in code
+  result = result.replace(/^[\s]?[\$#]\s+/gm, "")
+
+  // remove empty lines
+  result = result.replace(/^\s*\n/gm, '')
+  return result;
+}
diff --git a/docs/style.css b/docs/style.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b05cd280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/style.css
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* prevent selection of prefix and output for console syntax */
+.language-console .gp, .language-console .go {
+  user-select: none;
+  -webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari */
+  -ms-user-select: none; /* IE10+ */
+  color: !important pink;
+}
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/getting_started.md b/docs/tutorial/getting_started.md
index 76420a84..c28f8ce3 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/getting_started.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/getting_started.md
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ If you have no idea what an MTA is then [this may be a good primer](https://en.w
         We recommend upgrading to a newer OS as soon as possible.
 
 
-    ```
+    ```console
     $ sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo=\
         https://openrepo.kumomta.com/files/kumomta-centos.repo
     $ sudo yum install kumomta-dev
     ```
 
 === "Rocky"
-    ```
+    ```console
     $ sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
     $ sudo dnf config-manager \
         --add-repo \
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ If you have no idea what an MTA is then [this may be a good primer](https://en.w
     ```
 
 === "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS"
-    ```
+    ```console
     $ sudo apt install -y curl gnupg ca-certificates
     $ curl -fsSL https://openrepo.kumomta.com/kumomta-ubuntu-22/public.gpg | sudo gpg --yes --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/kumomta.gpg
     $ curl -fsSL https://openrepo.kumomta.com/files/kumomta-ubuntu22.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kumomta.list > /dev/null
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ If you have no idea what an MTA is then [this may be a good primer](https://en.w
     ```
 
 === "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"
-    ```
+    ```console
     $ sudo apt install -y curl gnupg ca-certificates
     $ curl -fsSL https://openrepo.kumomta.com/kumomta-ubuntu-20/public.gpg | sudo gpg --yes --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/kumomta.gpg
     $ curl -fsSL https://openrepo.kumomta.com/files/kumomta-ubuntu20.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kumomta.list > /dev/null
diff --git a/mkdocs-base.yml b/mkdocs-base.yml
index 7e433f99..2c1d94ce 100644
--- a/mkdocs-base.yml
+++ b/mkdocs-base.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ theme:
   features:
     - content.action.edit
     - content.action.view
+    - content.code.copy
     - content.tabs.link
     - navigation.footer
     - navigation.indexes
@@ -52,10 +53,21 @@ plugins:
         - "SUMMARY.md"
         - "book.toml"
 
+extra_css:
+  - style.css
+extra_javascript:
+  - javascript/fix-codeblock-console-copy-button.js
+
 markdown_extensions:
   - admonition
   - pymdownx.details
   - def_list
+  - pymdownx.highlight:
+      anchor_linenums: true
+      line_spans: __span
+      pygments_lang_class: true
+  - pymdownx.inlinehilite
+  - pymdownx.snippets
   - pymdownx.tasklist:
       custom_checkbox: true
   - pymdownx.tabbed: