Amir E. AharoniJan 11

I'm a forty-five-year-old man, and I've been using desktop web browsers for twenty-eight of them, and only a few months ago I learned how to highlight text that is a hyperlink without clicking the link: by holding Alt why highlighting. I use it many times a day now. How did even use the web before that?

In case you still didn't know it, now you do.

Thank you @jhsoby for teaching me this.

Show threadOttoJan 16
@aharoni @jhsoby ummm . Why exactly would you need to hilite texts as a hyperlink? What is the use case for this practice? Your solution may indeed work, but I don't understand the reason for it.
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 16
@otto42 @jhsoby It's useful when a piece of text is already a hyperlink, and you want to copy it.
Show threadOtto
@aharoni Why don't you just right click it and select "copy link"?
Jan 16 at 6:16amWeb
Show threadHenrik PauliJan 16
@otto42 @aharoni I was wondering the same :D Meticulously selecting seems to be a bit cumbersome even with the link interaction not interfering.
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 16
@phl @otto42 On Firefox and Chromium on desktop Ubuntu, right click + copy link copies the URL and not the text.
Show threadHenrik PauliJan 16
@aharoni @otto42 ohhh I was visualising the whole thing being visually a URL too! Now it makes sense.
Show threadHenrik PauliJan 16
@aharoni @otto42 a Copy Link Text menu item would be a terrific feature
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 16
@phl @otto42 maybe, but sometimes I want to copy only a part of the text. I can copy more and delete, but why should it be different for links?