how does it do this

[Steve]

if i go here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...olf-image.html

and select the title text only > COPY

and PASTE here, i get

Probe launched over claims winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year faked wolf image

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...olf-image.html


which is pretty clever because it gives a link back, if i check the source, firefox just shows that the title is selected. where does it get the link back from?

[.Simon.]

Ooooh now that is pretty clever, i'd like to know the answer to this as well ;P

EDIT: If i paste into the address bar in chrome, it pastes the same as here, with the 'read more' bit as well.

[atholon]

Probably in Javascript

[atholon]

 
<!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.20.3.
Copyright 1997-2009 Omniture, Inc. More info available at
http://www.omniture.com -->
 
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on
the next lines. */
s_domain = (document.location.hostname.indexOf('mailonsunday') > -1) ? 'mailonsunday' : 'dailymail';
s.channel='/' + s_domain;
s.pageName=s.channel + '/sciencetech/article';
s.prop1='/sciencetech';
s.prop2='/sciencetech';
s.prop3='';
s.prop4='article';
s.prop5='Wildlife Photographer of the year winner allegedly faked wolf image\n';
s.prop6='1237468';
s.prop7='';
s.prop8='';
s.prop9='';
s.prop10='';
s.prop11= $T.getCookie('authid') ? 'Logged In' : 'Logged Out';
s.prop17='';
s.prop18='';
s.prop19='';
s.prop20='';
s.prop21= $T.getCookie('userid') ? $T.getCookie('userid') : '';
s.prop22= ''; // Partner ID here: (self != top) ? ... : '';
s.products='';
/* Hierarchy Variables */
s.hier2=s_domain + s.prop2;
/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
var s_code=s.t();if(s_code)document.write(s_code)//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if(navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE')>=0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-')
//--></script><!--/DO NOT REMOVE/-->

[Scott]

http://www.tynt.com/

[atholon]

It is pretty simple to do... they just use something like getElementById or one of the similar ones in Prototype or Jquery for classes notice the class of the div sorrounding the <h1>?

They may even have a event handler trigger on the entire document for when you hit control + c