Add link when someone copies text from a webpage

[IgnatiusTheKing]

So I've seen this a few times and I'm starting to wonder how it's done. When you copy text from some websites (especially newspaper sites), then paste it somewhere, "Read more" plus a link to the page is added. Anyone know how to do this? The quoted text below is an example what happens when you copy text from this page.

Having survived the most recent wave of expansion intact, the Big East Conference is studying ways to bolster its position and has targeted TCU as very attractive candidate to help strengthen its football league, The Post has learned.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/coll...t_in_tcu_6GTZTxC9I2fssdAib7x6KK#ixzz10t5chKXj

 

[manueld]

It really just depends on what you're pasting it into, if your pasting into a html capable document then links should carry over.

 

[WildCowboy]

Tynt

One of the scourges of the Internet, at least for people like me who are copying lots of quotes from websites. The first thing I have to do is delete the crap they add on there. Fortunately, there are some tools to help defeat it.

John Gruber's thoughts, which seem to be pretty spot on.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Tynt

One of the scourges of the Internet, at least for people like me who are copying lots of quotes from websites. The first thing I have to do is delete the crap they add on there. Fortunately, there are some tools to help defeat it.

John Gruber's thoughts, which seem to be pretty spot on.

Thanks for the links. I, too, dislike having that junk added, I just had no real idea how it was done. I went to the NY Post site and found this JS link ("Tracer.js") embedded in the code.

And thanks to the Gruber blog, now I have this Safari 5 extension to block it (and some other annoying stuff).