Copy content from webpage - and paste content + link

Question

Sports Illustrated cnn link

Copy some content on the above web page and paste it in a notepad, you will see in addition to what copied there is a also a Read more link of the web page you copied from.

How did they do this? Ideas?

Answer 1

It uses JavaScript provided by Tynt.

It basically uses Javascript's onCopy event handler.

Information about onCopy:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.oncopy

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536916(VS.85).aspx

Analysis of how Tynt works:

• http://blog.nparashuram.com/2009/03/how-tynt-works-technical-details.html