How To Copy A Text From A Pop-Over Menu

There are elements in a website that are intended not to be copied or downloaded. So webmasters put some codes to disable the right mouse button. But this trick is easily resolved by using keyboard shortcut combinations, or the browser's built in copy and paste menu.

This afternoon, I encountered a challenging situation. I wanted to copy a text content out from a pop-over menu but it was not letting me. This is the type that automatically pops over when the cursor is hovered over a keyword (1).  The text can be highlighted (2); can be right clicked and even let me highlight the copy (3) menu. But when I tried to paste (4) the copied texts to a word processor or text editor, there was no output!

Interestingly, at the middle of the menu, I've noticed the selection 'Search Google for "The title should...” (5)'. It seemed like the text that was not copied in the clipboard was captured by the Google’s integrated search menu.

Clicking the search google menu (5) confirmed that the text from the pop-over was captured in the search input window. But unfortunately not all texts are copied, only 150 characters including spaces. But this was more promising.

To transfer the text  was now simpler. It was  just a matter of highlighting (7) it, and pasting (8) to the window of a text editor. I did not encountered any problem at all. I just repeated the procedure until all texts has been copied!

How To View Failed to Load Website Contents

Imagine there's an interesting story link from a site you want to see. After clicking the link, an external page loads with many web components. They start to appear one by one then the site just stops responding. The other elements on the site are there, but frustratingly,  the information you want to see did not load because of one or a combination of these  reasons,  the site crashed,  your browser crashed, or it can also be the plugin that  interprets the info you want to see did not work. Or you do not have the credentials to see the item thus you are forbidden to take a look!

 A blank spot then appears  (1) in place where the information is supposed to be.  What should you do?

 Usually, we do not have any patience in trying it again after the page fails to load on two tries. We just easily lost  interest and  move to another story. Even if your browser is failing to show you the content, there is still a way of forcing to view the blank spot.

Depending on the browser you are using, by getting the URL of the item, the information can still be seen. Here's how.

On firefox 

 This is done easily by pointing the cursor on the location of the  missing item (1) on the page. Then right click it, and chose "copy image location"(2).

 Open a new tab and paste the copied URL and press enter. This will give you the missing image you've been trying to see.

Chrome browser shows a different menu when right clicked. This time you need to choose "inspect" (3). 

 It will then show the HTML code with the highlighted line of the URL needed. Right click this and choose
open link in new tab(4).

 And the file is opened in a new tab!