Firefox plugin to copy text with its formatting Intelligently?

Question

When viewing a webpage, I would like to copy a selection of text with its html formatting in one piece. Meaning if some text is in bold and blue, I want the tool to create a style or class in the html which makes the text blue. Everything is contained in the produced html.

I have downloaded a similar plugin but the classes definitions are still external which means I have to get them separately. A non technical user would be at a loss here. I want the user to be able to copy and paste to a new webpage and that page just just works properly because the html copied contains everything.

This doesn't have to be a FF plugin. It could be IE or a Windows app.

Answer 1

I think the copy operation does this already. If I copy this page and paste it in a WYSIWYG editor such as TinyMCE (included in Wordpress), I get the formatting. For example the text of this page is (as pasted):

<h2><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365603/firefox-plugin-to-copy-text-with-its-formatting-intelligently"&gt;Firefox plugin to copy text with its formatting Intelligently?</a></h2>

The HTML markup is copied, but not external CSS. I suspect creating a piece of CSS that would apply to your standalone snippet of code the style it had within the DOM hierarchy would be horribly difficult if at all possible.