Attribution is important, but changing things outside of what the site should be changing is a bad pattern. This falls into the category of not respecting the user’s actions. This means that it’s intercepting the copy event, modifying the text that’s selected, and passing it on, like a man-in-the-middle attack against your clipboard. Interestingly, this function must run before the copy event is fully bubbled up. This is because the focus and selection has shifted to that other div. Now that I know how it’s done, another unusual thing makes sense-when I highlight text and hit copy, the highlight goes away. It then updates this selection with lectAllChildren, which updates the selected text to be the text in the newly created div. The magic is from window.getSelection(), which gives access to the string that the user has selected. It then adds this function as a listener on the copy event, so every time the browser hears that you’re copying, this is run first.
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Update the current selection to be the children of that div (aka select the concatenated string of user selection and attribution).Add the new div element to the page with that the user’s selection and that HTML.Move it well off the screen to the left.Create a new empty div element on the page.Concatenate the user’s selection and that HTML.Build a string of HTML elements with the current page’s link and copyright info.Get the object that represents the user’s current selection.This creates a function addLink that does the following: Pagelink = ' From ' + + '© 2020 ',ĭocument.addEventListener('copy', addLink) Opening this up shows the 15 responsible lines of JS: // JavaScript Document JavaScript tags usually come at the end of the page, so straight to the bottom. My first instinct was that they were using some generically named “copy-copyright” library somewhere, so I inspected the HTML. Out of curiousity I inspected the page to see if I could figure how they were doing this. I’ve worked with JavaScript quite a bit, but I’ve never modified a user’s copy command.
Two of the good things about JavaScript are that it runs on your computer and it’s easily inspectable. It looks like this site is overriding the copied text somehow, and though I select a single character, it’s augmenting my copied text with a citation and copyright information. One problem though: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. I’m a sucker for a good copy and paste, so I selected the em dash character, copied it, and pasted back into my doc. I didn’t see one on the search results page to copy, so I clicked into the first result: “The Punctuation Guide”: Since I don’t have the shortcut memorized-for future reference, shift+option+minus on Mac-I did a quick search for it. I was recently trying to find an em dash character to use in a piece of writing. You can (but shouldn't) change how people copy text from your website.
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How do you use these shortcuts and what’s your go-to way to type an EM dash on windows or Mac system that you use.
It helps clarify anything I am trying to explain without making it look like a never-ending paragraph. I use EM-dash all the time writing these articles as much as I can. This keyboard shortcut works for all the applications in Mac OS. Hold the below-mentioned keys in the same order and release them to see the EM dash inserted into the document. Yes, some have a number keypad too, but the keyboard shortcut to type EM dash on mac remains universal. Typing an EM Dash on Mac is very simple and universal as all the mac systems have the same keyboard. You will need to redo this process again if you would like to paste the EM dash symbol again in the future. Please remember that if you copy or cut something after doing this, the EM dash won’t be in the clipboard. This symbol is now copied to your clipboard and can be used anywhere or in any application that you are trying to type EM dash in. Click on the EM dash symbol and click “Copy”.
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