dhruvtv/copylinkaddress

Chrome extension to copy link address using keyboard.

Use Chrome? Copy link address without right-clicking! Just use your standard keyboard shortcut!

If you need to copy link addresses more than once, you know how annoying it is. You need to right-click, find the "Copy Link Address" menu item, and click it.

This extension makes your life easy. Just point to your link and hit your standard keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-C, or Cmd-C for Mac) and you're done!

Download it at the Chrome Web Store

To try the latest dev version of the extension,

1. Download the source (hit the 'ZIP' button you see at the top of the page) and extract to a directory
2. In Chrome, launch chrome://extensions
3. Enable Developer Mode
4. Click 'Load Unpacked Extensions' and point to the above directory.
5. Start using it!

Known Issues:

1. Hovering over a link will make focused input lose focus (temporarily - focus restored when you move out of link).
2. When the cursor is still in the URL box, hyperlink is not copied.

copylinkaddress's Issues

Plugin Messes up Facebook Chat

When this plugin is in use, while moving mouse over Facebook chat windows, it makes them go crazy

Doesn't copy link if link is applied to image

Example:
<a href="http://somesite.com/someplace.htm"><img href="http://img.url/someimg.gif"></a>

When hovering over the above on a page and doing ctrl-c, nothing is copied, it would be great if the link would be extracted from these as well.

When the cursor is still in the URL box, hyperlink is not copied

Steps to reproduce

• Go to the site: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us
• After the page is loaded, click on the URL box and make sure that cursor is at the end of the URL
• Go to any of the links and do (Cmd + C)
• The link is not copied.

Copy Link Text

Good afternoon, I was looking for an easy way of copying the link text without all the trouble that it involves, and I found your extension, which does a great job, but for links. Is it possible to implement copying the link text?

The extension reloads the page on Twitter when enlarging an image

Steps:

1. Install/enable extension
2. Go to https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1206603843930411011
3. Click on one of the pictures to enlarge

Expected: the popup with enlarged image opens, and the current location changes (+ /photo/1)
Actual: the page reloads

Hovering over a link will make focused input lose focus

Hi :)

I noticed that with the extension active, whenever I click an input field to focus it and then move the cursor away (which I seem to do a lot, both on purpose and by mistake if i bump my mouse with my hand on the way to the keyboard) and it then hovers any link, the input field will lose focus and I'll lose whatever input I started typing.

Send notification on copy

On some situations the shortcut may not work (see e.g. caveats section).
To make the workflow more solid, it would be useful if successful copy is notified via the browser in some way,
e.g.

• 'Link copied to clipboard'
• OR 'Link copied to clipboard: '

Would this be welcome as an official addition? Any hints for its implementation?

Some web pages jump around when hovering links

On most sites this extension works fine, but occasionally I come across a page that jumps around with this extension enabled. The best example I currently know of is this page:

https://completionist.me/profile/1b7c0508-556e-45e2-8bee-b9f7f76f1d02

It seems this <span> element causes issues with scrollbars...

<span id="copylAddress" style="display: inline-block; position: absolute; left: -9999em;"></span>

I suspect left: -9999em; is the culprit. Why do you need this hack? Can't you just use display: none;?

console errors

if input[type=checkbox] is the document.activeElement you will get the errors
Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to read the 'selectionStart' property from 'HTMLInputElement': The input element's type ('checkbox') does not support selection. copylinkaddress.js:36
and
Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to set the 'selectionStart' property on 'HTMLInputElement': The input element's type ('checkbox') does not support selection. copylinkaddress.js:68

some input types are not supported.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#the-input-element:dom-textarea/input-selectionstart-3

replacing
if (window.getSelection().rangeCount > 0) {
with
if (window.getSelection().rangeCount > 0 && window.getSelection().toString()) {
would prevent document.activeElement.selectionStart from getting called on a checkbox but not other unsupported inputs with selected text.

you would probably have to check if tagname == 'input' and see if input.type is supported

var supportedtypes = ['text','search','url','tel','password']; 
if(supportedtypes.indexOf(input.type) != -1){

}