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Simple. Right click your mouse over the page. Then click “View Page Source.” Highlight the area on the Page Source from where the text begins until where it ends. Then paste. It is okay to highlight a little more of the page source because you can delete that when you get ready to post. I do this all the time.
I have used this tool before to archive a website.
HTTrack Website Copier
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Use Firefox, and select text to be copied, and right click and choose “View Selection Source,” wait a bit and then copy the highlighted text and paste. See preview first before posting. Sometimes you have to copy the coding just before the beginning of the highlighted text.
Pray and post that which is good.
If using the ‘view source’ method make sure the embedded links work. Sometime when copying them they don’t have the complete URL address. Thus you’ll have to copy each URL and substitute it into the copied material.
sfl
Some web browers allow you to right click and then view the HTML source code.
It’s best to snip some of the code but not all of it (banner ads, etc.).
But this will permit you to retain the embedded links of many (but not all) pages.
And I don’t see a problem with this. There are some who post a teaser paragraph to a page but years later when I try to follow the link to read the full article to cite something in a contemporary FR thread, there is no “there”. Dead links. Content is GONE.