Just wanted to share my solution to major frustration in copying a Discourse post into an Outlook 2007 message (cue numerous sad trombone noises). Perhaps it has other applications. This essentially does the following:
- figures out the post id
- finds the relevant
<article>node and clones it - removes the enclosing
<a>link from each image - opens a new document (
about:blank) with Calibri as the font-family - takes the cloned node and appends it to the new document
If I use it in Chrome I can then copy the resulting document, then Paste Special → as HTML Format into Outlook 2007 and it has a reasonable similarity to the original Discourse post.
Firefox creates the new about:blank page correctly but doesn’t seem to get data into the Windows Clipboard in a way that Outlook understands formatting.
enjoy…
javascript:(function() {
var url = window.location.href;
var reply_id = window.location.pathname.match(/\/t\/[^/]*\/([0-9]+)(?:\/([0-9]+))?$/);
if (reply_id)
{
reply_id = reply_id[2] || "1";
var original_contents = document.querySelector('article#post_'+reply_id+' .topic-body .contents .cooked');
var contents = original_contents.cloneNode(true);
function unwrap(element) {
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
while (element.firstChild) {
fragment.appendChild(element.firstChild);
}
element.parentNode.replaceChild(fragment, element);
}
contents.querySelectorAll('img').forEach(function(img){
unwrap(img.parentElement); /* remove containing <a> link */
});
var newdoc = window.open().document;
newdoc.write("<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style type='text/css'>.cooked { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; }</style></head><body></body></html>");
newdoc.close();
newdoc.adoptNode(contents);
newdoc.body.appendChild(contents);
}
}());
