Is there a way that a tooltip message that appears in the browser can be copied into the clipboard?
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This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use CSS, JavaScript, or an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator for what I need.
Also, I am looking for something my endusers (non-technical) can use. So viewsource, etc. won't help.
windows browser clipboard
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This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use CSS, JavaScript, or an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator for what I need.
Also, I am looking for something my endusers (non-technical) can use. So viewsource, etc. won't help.
windows browser clipboard
edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
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asked Dec 16 '10 at 19:39
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Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
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This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use CSS, JavaScript, or an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator for what I need.
Also, I am looking for something my endusers (non-technical) can use. So viewsource, etc. won't help.
windows browser clipboard
edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
asked Dec 16 '10 at 19:39
Lill LanseyLill Lansey
13115
This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use CSS, JavaScript, or an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator for what I need.
Also, I am looking for something my endusers (non-technical) can use. So viewsource, etc. won't help.
windows browser clipboard
windows browser clipboard
edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
asked Dec 16 '10 at 19:39
Lill LanseyLill Lansey
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edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
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asked Dec 16 '10 at 19:39
Lill LanseyLill Lansey
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edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
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edited Jan 27 at 21:10
Peter Mortensen
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Peter Mortensen
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asked Dec 16 '10 at 19:39
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Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
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Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
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Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
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Open page source, find element, copy title attribute. Assuming that the attribute is not set with JavaScript.
If you are using Firefox, install Firebug and use the element selector to select the element with the tooltip you want to copy, then copy the title attribute from the DOM tree displayed. This will work even if the attribute is set with JavaScript.
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
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Not from the tooltip directly.
But if you're willing to do a little work, there's always ways to get at this stuff:
- Right click on the page and select your browser's equivalent of "View Source". Assuming there's no evil JavaScript code preventing access to your source and that the tooltip wasn't pulled via an Ajax request, you should now be able to study the source for the page and find your text somewhere among the HTML and JavaScript content you see there.
- Alternatively, use a debugger like Firebug that can inspect the active DOM for the page to find the tooltip text in a place that can be copied directly.
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
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answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
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Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
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Nope, unfortunately not ... unless someone writes some sort of browser plugin that does this.
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
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I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
add a comment |
Babak's comment is kind of important. As it stands right now, it sounds like you're not really writing any code or developing any application; you just want to copy something from your browser to the clipboard.
Assuming that's what you're trying to do, then it's possible that the tooltip is in the HTML code. Explicit text can be placed in HTML that most browsers render as a tooltip on mouseover (such as the alt property on an img tag). If the tooltip you want to copy to the clipboard is part of the HTML content, then you can view the source from within your browser and copy it from there.
Some browsers have more modern debugging and inspection tools which allow you to right-click on the element itself and go straight to that point in the source as well.
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
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SnagIt, a commercial screen capture tool, can extract text out of a tool tip as well.
There are also other alternatives but I haven't tried them.
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
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Clearly by Evernote evernote.com/clearly/ works for me - it shows all the tooltips in a list after any normal text in the page.
(I've only tried this on one type of page, which didn't provide any useful information in in Source Page for the htm.)
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
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Alternatively, you may try opening the page source and searching for a part of the description text by manually typing it into the search box.
Also, browsers these days have developer tools built in, so if you're familiar with how they work, it might be easier to just analyze an image and find that text in one of its properties. Or you could search through all connected files using devtools for a part of the description text as well.
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
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In Chrome:
- Load the web page
- Open Chrome DevTools... Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+I (Mac)
- On the web page:
- Display the tooltip (usually by hovering over some part of the page)
- Right-click while the tooltip is visible, but do NOT select an item from the context menu (to ensure the tooltip remains visible for step 4)
- In Chrome DevTools:
- Click the "Elements" tab to give the "Elements" panel focus
- Crtl+F to search within the "Elements" panel
- Type the first few words of the tooltip text into the search box... now the search string should appear highlighted in the "Elements" panel
- Click on the element that contains the tooltip text
- Right-click on the selected element
- From the content menu, select "Copy" -> "Copy element"
Done... the entire tooltip text will be on the clipboard now.
Tested in Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m.
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Open page source, find element, copy title attribute. Assuming that the attribute is not set with JavaScript.
If you are using Firefox, install Firebug and use the element selector to select the element with the tooltip you want to copy, then copy the title attribute from the DOM tree displayed. This will work even if the attribute is set with JavaScript.
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
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Open page source, find element, copy title attribute. Assuming that the attribute is not set with JavaScript.
If you are using Firefox, install Firebug and use the element selector to select the element with the tooltip you want to copy, then copy the title attribute from the DOM tree displayed. This will work even if the attribute is set with JavaScript.
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
add a comment |
Open page source, find element, copy title attribute. Assuming that the attribute is not set with JavaScript.
If you are using Firefox, install Firebug and use the element selector to select the element with the tooltip you want to copy, then copy the title attribute from the DOM tree displayed. This will work even if the attribute is set with JavaScript.
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
Open page source, find element, copy title attribute. Assuming that the attribute is not set with JavaScript.
If you are using Firefox, install Firebug and use the element selector to select the element with the tooltip you want to copy, then copy the title attribute from the DOM tree displayed. This will work even if the attribute is set with JavaScript.
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
cdhowiecdhowie
36615
36615
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Not from the tooltip directly.
But if you're willing to do a little work, there's always ways to get at this stuff:
- Right click on the page and select your browser's equivalent of "View Source". Assuming there's no evil JavaScript code preventing access to your source and that the tooltip wasn't pulled via an Ajax request, you should now be able to study the source for the page and find your text somewhere among the HTML and JavaScript content you see there.
- Alternatively, use a debugger like Firebug that can inspect the active DOM for the page to find the tooltip text in a place that can be copied directly.
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
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Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
add a comment |
Not from the tooltip directly.
But if you're willing to do a little work, there's always ways to get at this stuff:
- Right click on the page and select your browser's equivalent of "View Source". Assuming there's no evil JavaScript code preventing access to your source and that the tooltip wasn't pulled via an Ajax request, you should now be able to study the source for the page and find your text somewhere among the HTML and JavaScript content you see there.
- Alternatively, use a debugger like Firebug that can inspect the active DOM for the page to find the tooltip text in a place that can be copied directly.
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
24.4k973120
Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
add a comment |
Not from the tooltip directly.
But if you're willing to do a little work, there's always ways to get at this stuff:
- Right click on the page and select your browser's equivalent of "View Source". Assuming there's no evil JavaScript code preventing access to your source and that the tooltip wasn't pulled via an Ajax request, you should now be able to study the source for the page and find your text somewhere among the HTML and JavaScript content you see there.
- Alternatively, use a debugger like Firebug that can inspect the active DOM for the page to find the tooltip text in a place that can be copied directly.
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
24.4k973120
Not from the tooltip directly.
But if you're willing to do a little work, there's always ways to get at this stuff:
- Right click on the page and select your browser's equivalent of "View Source". Assuming there's no evil JavaScript code preventing access to your source and that the tooltip wasn't pulled via an Ajax request, you should now be able to study the source for the page and find your text somewhere among the HTML and JavaScript content you see there.
- Alternatively, use a debugger like Firebug that can inspect the active DOM for the page to find the tooltip text in a place that can be copied directly.
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
24.4k973120
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
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edited Jan 27 at 21:13
Peter Mortensen
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8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
24.4k973120
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
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answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:47
Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn
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Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
add a comment |
Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
Great ideas, but I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
@Lill Lansey: If it's a page you control then there are any number of ways to present copyable text to them, so I'm assuming this is just something your users want to be able to do in any page? If that's the case, you'll either need to write some kind of browser plugin for them or give them some basic instruction in Firebug (or some equivalent in the browser of choice) to right-click on an element and see its text. But based on the number of varying ways to create a tooltip, even that will have limited success.
– David
Dec 16 '10 at 19:54
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Nope, unfortunately not ... unless someone writes some sort of browser plugin that does this.
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
add a comment |
Nope, unfortunately not ... unless someone writes some sort of browser plugin that does this.
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
add a comment |
Nope, unfortunately not ... unless someone writes some sort of browser plugin that does this.
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
Nope, unfortunately not ... unless someone writes some sort of browser plugin that does this.
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:14
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:41
Joel MartinezJoel Martinez
71221118
71221118
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
add a comment |
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
I edited my question. This is not my code.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49
add a comment |
Babak's comment is kind of important. As it stands right now, it sounds like you're not really writing any code or developing any application; you just want to copy something from your browser to the clipboard.
Assuming that's what you're trying to do, then it's possible that the tooltip is in the HTML code. Explicit text can be placed in HTML that most browsers render as a tooltip on mouseover (such as the alt property on an img tag). If the tooltip you want to copy to the clipboard is part of the HTML content, then you can view the source from within your browser and copy it from there.
Some browsers have more modern debugging and inspection tools which allow you to right-click on the element itself and go straight to that point in the source as well.
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
add a comment |
Babak's comment is kind of important. As it stands right now, it sounds like you're not really writing any code or developing any application; you just want to copy something from your browser to the clipboard.
Assuming that's what you're trying to do, then it's possible that the tooltip is in the HTML code. Explicit text can be placed in HTML that most browsers render as a tooltip on mouseover (such as the alt property on an img tag). If the tooltip you want to copy to the clipboard is part of the HTML content, then you can view the source from within your browser and copy it from there.
Some browsers have more modern debugging and inspection tools which allow you to right-click on the element itself and go straight to that point in the source as well.
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
add a comment |
Babak's comment is kind of important. As it stands right now, it sounds like you're not really writing any code or developing any application; you just want to copy something from your browser to the clipboard.
Assuming that's what you're trying to do, then it's possible that the tooltip is in the HTML code. Explicit text can be placed in HTML that most browsers render as a tooltip on mouseover (such as the alt property on an img tag). If the tooltip you want to copy to the clipboard is part of the HTML content, then you can view the source from within your browser and copy it from there.
Some browsers have more modern debugging and inspection tools which allow you to right-click on the element itself and go straight to that point in the source as well.
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
Babak's comment is kind of important. As it stands right now, it sounds like you're not really writing any code or developing any application; you just want to copy something from your browser to the clipboard.
Assuming that's what you're trying to do, then it's possible that the tooltip is in the HTML code. Explicit text can be placed in HTML that most browsers render as a tooltip on mouseover (such as the alt property on an img tag). If the tooltip you want to copy to the clipboard is part of the HTML content, then you can view the source from within your browser and copy it from there.
Some browsers have more modern debugging and inspection tools which allow you to right-click on the element itself and go straight to that point in the source as well.
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:20
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
8,386166185
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
answered Dec 16 '10 at 19:48
DavidDavid
51821225
51821225
add a comment |
add a comment |
SnagIt, a commercial screen capture tool, can extract text out of a tool tip as well.
There are also other alternatives but I haven't tried them.
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
add a comment |
SnagIt, a commercial screen capture tool, can extract text out of a tool tip as well.
There are also other alternatives but I haven't tried them.
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
add a comment |
SnagIt, a commercial screen capture tool, can extract text out of a tool tip as well.
There are also other alternatives but I haven't tried them.
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
SnagIt, a commercial screen capture tool, can extract text out of a tool tip as well.
There are also other alternatives but I haven't tried them.
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
answered Jan 5 '11 at 6:32
mvarkmvark
2,19911118
2,19911118
add a comment |
add a comment |
Clearly by Evernote evernote.com/clearly/ works for me - it shows all the tooltips in a list after any normal text in the page.
(I've only tried this on one type of page, which didn't provide any useful information in in Source Page for the htm.)
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
1
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Clearly by Evernote evernote.com/clearly/ works for me - it shows all the tooltips in a list after any normal text in the page.
(I've only tried this on one type of page, which didn't provide any useful information in in Source Page for the htm.)
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
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Clearly by Evernote evernote.com/clearly/ works for me - it shows all the tooltips in a list after any normal text in the page.
(I've only tried this on one type of page, which didn't provide any useful information in in Source Page for the htm.)
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
1
Clearly by Evernote evernote.com/clearly/ works for me - it shows all the tooltips in a list after any normal text in the page.
(I've only tried this on one type of page, which didn't provide any useful information in in Source Page for the htm.)
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
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answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
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answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
AmerAmer
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answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:09
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Alternatively, you may try opening the page source and searching for a part of the description text by manually typing it into the search box.
Also, browsers these days have developer tools built in, so if you're familiar with how they work, it might be easier to just analyze an image and find that text in one of its properties. Or you could search through all connected files using devtools for a part of the description text as well.
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
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Alternatively, you may try opening the page source and searching for a part of the description text by manually typing it into the search box.
Also, browsers these days have developer tools built in, so if you're familiar with how they work, it might be easier to just analyze an image and find that text in one of its properties. Or you could search through all connected files using devtools for a part of the description text as well.
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
add a comment |
Alternatively, you may try opening the page source and searching for a part of the description text by manually typing it into the search box.
Also, browsers these days have developer tools built in, so if you're familiar with how they work, it might be easier to just analyze an image and find that text in one of its properties. Or you could search through all connected files using devtools for a part of the description text as well.
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
Alternatively, you may try opening the page source and searching for a part of the description text by manually typing it into the search box.
Also, browsers these days have developer tools built in, so if you're familiar with how they work, it might be easier to just analyze an image and find that text in one of its properties. Or you could search through all connected files using devtools for a part of the description text as well.
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
answered Dec 4 '13 at 20:14
user1306322user1306322
2,15393673
2,15393673
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In Chrome:
- Load the web page
- Open Chrome DevTools... Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+I (Mac)
- On the web page:
- Display the tooltip (usually by hovering over some part of the page)
- Right-click while the tooltip is visible, but do NOT select an item from the context menu (to ensure the tooltip remains visible for step 4)
- In Chrome DevTools:
- Click the "Elements" tab to give the "Elements" panel focus
- Crtl+F to search within the "Elements" panel
- Type the first few words of the tooltip text into the search box... now the search string should appear highlighted in the "Elements" panel
- Click on the element that contains the tooltip text
- Right-click on the selected element
- From the content menu, select "Copy" -> "Copy element"
Done... the entire tooltip text will be on the clipboard now.
Tested in Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m.
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
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In Chrome:
- Load the web page
- Open Chrome DevTools... Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+I (Mac)
- On the web page:
- Display the tooltip (usually by hovering over some part of the page)
- Right-click while the tooltip is visible, but do NOT select an item from the context menu (to ensure the tooltip remains visible for step 4)
- In Chrome DevTools:
- Click the "Elements" tab to give the "Elements" panel focus
- Crtl+F to search within the "Elements" panel
- Type the first few words of the tooltip text into the search box... now the search string should appear highlighted in the "Elements" panel
- Click on the element that contains the tooltip text
- Right-click on the selected element
- From the content menu, select "Copy" -> "Copy element"
Done... the entire tooltip text will be on the clipboard now.
Tested in Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m.
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
add a comment |
In Chrome:
- Load the web page
- Open Chrome DevTools... Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+I (Mac)
- On the web page:
- Display the tooltip (usually by hovering over some part of the page)
- Right-click while the tooltip is visible, but do NOT select an item from the context menu (to ensure the tooltip remains visible for step 4)
- In Chrome DevTools:
- Click the "Elements" tab to give the "Elements" panel focus
- Crtl+F to search within the "Elements" panel
- Type the first few words of the tooltip text into the search box... now the search string should appear highlighted in the "Elements" panel
- Click on the element that contains the tooltip text
- Right-click on the selected element
- From the content menu, select "Copy" -> "Copy element"
Done... the entire tooltip text will be on the clipboard now.
Tested in Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m.
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
In Chrome:
- Load the web page
- Open Chrome DevTools... Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+I (Mac)
- On the web page:
- Display the tooltip (usually by hovering over some part of the page)
- Right-click while the tooltip is visible, but do NOT select an item from the context menu (to ensure the tooltip remains visible for step 4)
- In Chrome DevTools:
- Click the "Elements" tab to give the "Elements" panel focus
- Crtl+F to search within the "Elements" panel
- Type the first few words of the tooltip text into the search box... now the search string should appear highlighted in the "Elements" panel
- Click on the element that contains the tooltip text
- Right-click on the selected element
- From the content menu, select "Copy" -> "Copy element"
Done... the entire tooltip text will be on the clipboard now.
Tested in Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m.
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
edited Jan 27 at 21:21
Peter Mortensen
8,386166185
8,386166185
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
answered Nov 29 '16 at 0:47
nmfonnmfon
11
11
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Is this an application that you are writing or is this in the context of any application that you are running on your machine?
– Babak Naffas
Dec 16 '10 at 19:40
I edited my question. This is not my code. I upvoted all your answers. If I could have selected all of your answers as the accepted answer I would have. I thought maybe there was a hot key or something. Thanks, all.
– Lill Lansey
Dec 16 '10 at 19:49