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Add-ons Development
1

Hi,

I have created a FF web extension with context menus.

When I select a text and right click, I see my context menu, I click it and display the selected text. Here the selected text displayed is plain text where as I would like display the styles or links in the selected text.

How can I solve this please?

browser.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function (info, tab) {

	if (info.selectionText) {

		console.log(info.selectionText);

}

}

Any help is much appreciated

Thanks

2

Hmm, Firefox 56 added info.linkText. Maybe that will help? It’s not clear whether that is applicable to a selection or can be easily combined with it.

You may need to interrogate the selection using standard DOM methods.

3

info.linkText gives me the text of the link
and
info.selectedText gives me the plain text that is selected

But I would like to get the hyper links in the selected text
I was getting the below text “Sign in to your BBC account, or Register to see Weather, Local News and more”

Where as I would like to get actual html tags as below

Sign in to your BBC account, or Register to see Weather, Local News and more

4

You will have to get that information using a content script, listening for the contextmenu event and then getting the links inside the selection.