Copy and paste selection and url

Hi,


Very often I need to copy and paste a few lines from a web page in Safari into another document.

Is there a way to copy a few lines, and also simultaneously copy their url, so that they can both be pasted together?

Thanks.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 7:02 PM

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Sep 27, 2016 1:13 AM in response to annpiece

You can copy and paste the content, though it may not appear in your other document with the same style as presented on the web site.


As for the link (URL), you can right-click on web site links, and choose copy link (Safari), or copy link location (Firefox) from the contextual menu. Some links are unwieldy in length, and may wrap across several lines in your recipient document. The application that you use for that document may permit you to assign long link addresses to brief, descriptive text.

Oct 1, 2016 6:27 PM in response to annpiece

You are expecting a Web browser, and its content, to behave as though you are in Word with its text and object selection capabilities. A web browser is just a display of non-Word processing content, and is not based on any word processor functionality.


Expecting word processing paradigms to work in web browsers, will indeed, lead to disappointment.

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