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SOLVED: "Dressed" links
IainB:
...The link should look like "Dressed" links - DonationCoder.com with the URL completely hidden. A look at the extention QuoteURLText leads me to believe that it will not give me this, and I can find no FFx or Tbird extentions that will do this. ...
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-Sarkand (December 31, 2013, 09:39 PM)
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No, the QuoteURLText add-on is quite smart and senses any links - it can do this "dressed link" - it's the menu option Rich Text HTML.
I know it works as I frequently use it to past linked web page headings into OnrNote. (It's cumbersome to get linked web page headings otherwise - too many steps.)
If one right-clicks on a link, it comes up with this alternative menu option:
Otherwise, if you just right-click on the page heading or a blank area of the page, it comes up with the first menu option as per the image I copied above. Do you see the difference?
Sarkand:
...The link should look like "Dressed" links - DonationCoder.com with the URL completely hidden. A look at the extention QuoteURLText leads me to believe that it will not give me this, and I can find no FFx or Tbird extentions that will do this. ...
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-Sarkand (December 31, 2013, 09:39 PM)
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No, the QuoteURLText add-on is quite smart and senses any links - it can do this "dressed link" - it's the menu option Rich Text HTML.
I know it works as I frequently use it to past linked web page headings into OnrNote. (It's cumbersome to get linked web page headings otherwise - too many steps.)
If one right-clicks on a link, it comes up with this alternative menu option:
(see attachment in previous post)
Otherwise, if you just right-click on the page heading or a blank area of the page, it comes up with the first menu option as per the image I copied above. Do you see the difference?
-IainB (December 31, 2013, 10:35 PM)
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Yes, I see the difference - the arrow is going the other direction and the context menu is now on the left :D JK. Thanks, Iain, I'll give this a try tomorrow and let you know. Right now, I have to go and celebrate the end of this pretty nasty old year. Hope you have a good New one. I will let you know for sure if this does what I want. When I tried RT HTML within the page context menu, it gave me nothing on the clipboard. I'll install the addon and try it with a link. Thanks for the info, I'll let you know.
Sarkand:
Iain,
Okay, tried RT HTML Nothing visible when I try to paste it to a notepad, but pasting directly into the email draft worked perfectly. This worked both with and without the extension and in both Tbird and browser-based Gmail. However, since the link per se is not on the target page (in this case, a New York Times article), I was able to use the "Copy page title and location as Rich Text HTML" Thanks for the enlightenment, I owe you one. Just what I wanted/needed, give that man a cigar.
IainB:
Sorry @Sarkand, I had a complete confused brainf#rt on this (probably due to lack of sleep - been up coughing all night) and mixed up the URL-related add-ons. It's also difficult to remember which add-ons do what sometimes, as I have so many!
To clarify:
Please note that the tool that offers the menu option "Copy page title and location as" is CoLT and not QuoteURLText.
Refer: Born Geek ยป Copy Link Text (CoLT)
Also see: Firefox Add-Ons to Copy WebPage Title and URL to the Clipboard
I first came across CoLT here:
CoLT 2.5.5[/url]
[*] http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
[*] Makes it easy to copy link text and locations.
[/list]
-Curt (March 22, 2012, 09:52 AM)
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CoLT and QuoteURLText have been mentioned in several DCF discussions.
This is where I first came across QuoteURLText - it does a lot more than you might think:
Quote URL Text_1.0.9b (title, url, quote, date)
multicopy_1.1 (list of Ctrl-c clips)
Scrapbook_1.5.6
Web Of Trust
firefox_18.0.1 in live linux puppy-precise_5.4.3 from DVD-RW in amd64 box
-sword (March 05, 2013, 02:15 PM)
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I have been using this add-on for some time now and am keeping it. It really is useful and a real timesaver.
The great thing is that the selected text and all the associated URL metadata is saved as text into CHS (Clipboard Help & Spell) - which is a feature in CHS that I have wanted for quite a while.
Developer's website: http://qoelabs.com/quoteurl.php
Mozilla addon site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quoteurltext/
I went to the latter website, highlighted some text, pressed Ctrl+Shift+C, and pasted the text in the Clipboard below, in the quote. Note that the emboldened text in the quote was the selected text, to differentiate it from the rest of the text - which is related metadata collected by the add-on.
QuoteURLText :: Add-ons for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quoteurltext/
Sun Jun 16 2013 00:08:19 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
QuoteURLText 1.0.9b
by Jay Palat
Quote URL text will copy selected text to the clipboard including Page Title, Location and copy date.
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Pretty nifty.
-IainB (June 15, 2013, 07:34 AM)
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Sarkand:
Iain,
No worries, sorry you're feeling so bad, been a bit under the weather myself, and know what sleep deprivation can do to you. I have tons of extensions in FFx as well. I've been using ColT for so long that I forgot where this context menu came from. I have very little idea what rich text format is about, since I've done very little, and very simple, web programming. In any case, this is exactly what I wanted to do, and I thank you again for having the answer.
Cheers, and have a Happy New Year
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