Is it possible to have JUST TEXT copied when a user copies a url from a webpage to an HTML-enabled application such as Word of Outlook? Perhaps there is something I can do in Javascript? I know how to disable Copy + Paste completely, but I really need to disable HTML copying only.
Thank you very much.
In Word at least, you can Paste as plain text--Right click, Paste as Special... and select Unformatted. Maybe Outlook has that feature, too?
Not sure if you can change how the web browser is copying the text to the clipboard, though.
I don't think you can as the Hyperlink is copied as plain text and Word and Office then format that plain text into a hyperlink.
Do this: open Notepad. Type in a hyperlink, paste it into Outlook, and press Enter. Nothing you can do.
EDIT
If it is possible, set a function on the onload that checks for when something is copied and overwrite it. Here is a javascript function to Copy to the Clipboard:
This isn't possible. You have no control of how other applications (such as word/outlook) format.
When you paste something that looks like a URL into -- say -- Word, it recognizes it as a URL, and makes a link accordingly.
Therefore, there is no way for the web application to tell a user's desktop application to treat a string pasted from it in a given way.