I select the text of a hyperlink, but when I right click on it, there's no option to simply copy the text. It only allows to copy the link itself. How can I achieve what I desire?
MacOS – Right click selected text on a link, but only copy raw text
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Related Solutions
Cut, copy, and paste.
According to Apple should work as follows:
Find the text you want to edit in a note, email, web page, or other app. You can select a word by double-tapping it, and select more or less text by dragging the grab points. Then tap to cut, copy, or paste. To undo an edit, shake iPhone, then tap the Undo button.
However, in this particular case it appears that Facebook is creating a HTML 5 Web App/ page and is using JavaScript or similar functionality to prevent selection of text. When trying to view the page on a Mac/PC text will also not be selectable "that is not in the pictured text box" for copying.
In this example pictured below the text "Photo" nor "No file chosen text" nor even the "Update Status" text on the top of the page can't be selected even on a Mac.
The select-ability of text on a website does depends on the sites implementation details. If a site chooses to disable text selection the iPhone's browser will obey the sites request, and will not give you the ability to select text.
For the Facebook example text is really not select-able even on the Home wall page. If you really want to copy text from Facebook pages try opening the desktop version of the site on your iPhone. The same rings true for other sites that may be offering custom mobile web pages that may limit text selection.
So I am using the Firefox.
When I right click on link in a browser it shows this menu
When I click on text (not link) in browser or any other document it shows the same menu as yours.
When I click on the web address in the address bar it shows the menu with Copy, that I use to cop the link.
Best Answer
Click in the space before or after the link and drag across to select the link.
Copy, then paste somewhere and edit out the spaces.
Or double- or triple-click somewhere else on the line to get the whole line or paragraph, copy and edit results.
Or show page source, search for the text, and copy it from there.