How It Works

Description

Today's date in the Long Date format of the your machine.

Today's date and time in the Long Date and Time format of your machine.

HTML source of either the current selection or the whole document:

If you've selected something then it returns the selection's HTML source.

In all other cases it returns the whole document's HTML source.

The alternative text of the image that you've right-clicked over, as defined in the <img alt="..."> attribute. Returns blank if the mouse isn't hovering over an image or if the image doesn't have a src attribute.

Note: Images that come from a CSS background-image attribute will just return blanks as Firefox handles them in a different way to images loaded from the <img> tag. Easy Copy won't support these images since Firefox doesn't handle them the same either, eg. if you right-click on an <img> image, you get the Firefox menu item View Image Info. For CSS images, this item doesn't appear.

The source URL of the image that you've right-clicked over, as defined in the <img src="..."> attribute. Returns blank if the mouse isn't hovering over an image or if the image doesn't have an alt attribute.

Note: Images that come from a CSS background-image attribute will just return blanks as Firefox handles them in a different way to images loaded from the <img> tag. Easy Copy won't support these images since Firefox doesn't handle them the same either, eg. if you right-click on an <img> image, you get the Firefox menu item View Image Info. For CSS images, this item doesn't appear.

The title of the link that you've right-clicked over. If the mouse isn't hovering over a link then this defaults to a blank string.

The target URL of the link that you've right-clicked over (ie. Link Location). If the mouse isn't hovering over a link then this defaults to a blank string.

A list of links on the page, formatted as text and each on a separate line. The links returned are based on the context:

If you've selected text, only links that appear in the selected text are returned.

In all other cases, all links on the page are returned.

Links include links to other sites and download links such as PDFs and video files. Other variables can be used before and after this variable.

A list of links on the page, formatted as HTML and each on a separate line. The links returned are based on the context:

If you've selected text, only links that appear in the selected text are returned.

In all other cases, all links on the page are returned.

The title of the link is taken from the first available part depending on its title, accessibility text or image title (if the link is an image).

Links include links to other sites and download links such as PDFs and video files. Other variables can be used before and after this variable.

The entire content of the page as text (not HTML), similar to selecting the entire page and copying as text.

The text will be formatted according to the layout of the document, eg. paragraphs, indents, etc. It does not contain any other formatting such as bold, colours, images, etc.

Handy if you're using Copy All Tabs and want the entire contents of all the tabs.

The title of the page that you normally see in the browser tab, eg. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. To keep the title clean, Easy Copy can remove "- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" from the end of the title. You can enable this behaviour by changing the Formatting options.

The page's URL that you see in the address bar, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_vinci.

Prompts you for some text and then adds that text to the template. Useful for copying links to a site that you want to describe yourself, eg. for pasting in an email.

The text that's currently selected. If nothing is selected then this defaults to a blank string.

Today's time in the Long Time format of your machine.

A title that returns a different value based on the context:

If you've selected something then it returns the selected text (see selection).

If you've right-clicked over a link then it's the link's title (see link_title).

Otherwise it returns the current page's title (see page_title).

Returns a URL based on the context:

If you've right-clicked on a link then it returns the link's target URL (see link_url).

In all other cases it copies the current page's URL (in the address bar). See page_url.

Returns the full path of the page's URL, ie. the part after the domain. This consists of the URL path, query string and fragment. See examples.

Note: The frontslash (/) after the domain is always omitted. You can choose to manually add the frontslash to your templates or leave it as is.

Unlike %url% this always works on the page's URL and not on links.