When viewing a webpage, I would like to copy a selection of text with its html formatting in one piece.
Meaning if some text is in bold and blue, I want the tool to create a style or class in the html which makes the text blue. Everything is contained in the produced html.
I have downloaded a similar plugin but the classes definitions are still external which means I have to get them separately. A non technical user would be at a loss here. I want the user to be able to copy and paste to a new webpage and that page just just works properly because the html copied contains everything.
This doesn't have to be a FF plugin. It could be IE or a Windows app.
I think you may be able to accomplish this by using the Firebug for Firefox extension. I often use it to export the content of a web page for use rebuilding a similar object. Is this still too technical? Firebug is a powerful, viable option that it is worth learning, I think.
I think the copy operation does this already. If I copy this page and paste it in a WYSIWYG editor such as TinyMCE (included in Wordpress), I get the formatting. For example the text of this page is (as pasted):
<h2>Firefox plugin to copy text with its formatting Intelligently?</h2>
The HTML markup is copied, but not external CSS. I suspect creating a piece of CSS that would apply to your standalone snippet of code the style it had within the DOM hierarchy would be horribly difficult if at all possible.
Try SnappySnippet, it's a Chrome extension that allows to copy html and all the related css style of an element. It integrates itself into the Chrome console. I hope this helps
This seems to be what you're looking for:
Web Design Pirate:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/web-design-pirate-for-devtools/
It creates a new "Pirate" tab in the developer tools that lets you grab the elements you want, including all associated CSS.
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If you want to look at the CSS of other people's websites (to steal learn from them), Firebug lets you inspect the prettified CSS:
But in Chrome 16, you only get the minified CSS as it was served out:
Is there a way to get Chrome to prettify the CSS?
In the newer versions there is a "format" button that prettifies the source:
(only just realised myself :P )
The Developer's console shows the file as served. If you want a human-readable version, copy-paste the code to http://www.codebeautifier.com/.
If you use the Elements tab, the applied CSS properties are also shown per element.
I recommend Quick Source Viewer, which is an extension to chrome and requires no human copy-pasting (acts sort of like an extra chrome dev-tool).
It can show you the source of the current page formatted and colour coded.
It's pretty powerful, showing all 'sources' of the page, be it css, js or html. Even things like inline css/js can be viewed individually (with injected code highlighted). And the best part is it prettifies all of them, even the css (which chrome's dev tools still refuses to do).
You may want to checkout Pretty Print: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prettyprint/nipdlgebaanapcphbcidpmmmkcecpkhg?hl=en
After installing, when you view a minified CSS or JS file, it will appear (after a moment) un-minified.
After a fair bit of looking around, the only way I've found to get a signature on gmail is to copy the rendered HTML signature. Two problems arose: 1) I couldn't actually select my entire signature, and I can't even see what I am selecting like how it works with regular text and other's tutorials for gmail signatures. 2) If I press Ctrl+A on Firefox (Chrome only copies half, even when I use Ctrl+A), I can manage to copy my signature, but if I try to paste in the signature box, it glitches out and appears static in the top left of that specific Chrome/Firefox tab, like this (edited for privacy reasons):
And if I try to just go for it and email (after saving changes), no signature will be rendered at all. Not too sure what to do at this point, so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.
EDIT: This is the HTML I use to render the signature. As a side note, I do replace those placeholder file names with links from an image hosting site. I also add 3 tags around a few of the ""s.
Ultimately I found the solution after playing with various HTML and image options. The problem lies in my use of the <div> tag for the layout of the signature. I should have been using <td>. Using the slice tool in Illustrator will render the HTML with <div> tags, while using ruler guides in Photoshop and saving for web (I used the legacy option) will render with <td> tags. I'm going to do a little more digging and see if using guides in Illustrator will still render with <div> tags, but I'm not sure if this site is the place to discuss this piece of the problem.
EDIT: By the way, Illustrator just really likes <div>s, so if anyone is looking to do this same thing, use Photoshop's legacy Save for Web mode. It will generate the <td> tags for you.
I'm developing a web scraping tool in Python, and I need to get intimately acquainted with the functions of various HTML tags on certain sites. Unfortunately, the "view source" that Chrome, Firefox, and Safari offer does not output very well formatted HTML source code -- it tends to place a huge number of tags on the same line. Do the browsers offer any plugins that may be able to clean things up a bit, or do I need to get/develop some kind of tool in Python that takes dirty HTML as input and outputs cleanly formatted HTML?
Since I work primarily with Chrome, the best examples I can think of are Code Formatter (Chrome)
This isn't automatic; you have to copy and paste the entire page into the app. Also the app window is small (this unalterable to my knowledge), but relatively effective.
...and JavaScript and CSS Beautifier
Much more effective and clean, but only works, as the title suggests, with .Js and CSS.
With Firefox you can select (highlight - I am writing for beginners also) the text, and once it is selected, release the left mouse button and right click within the selected area and choose "View selection source." You can then copy the highlighted text and paste it.
My composite example:
View selection source
I have a web application that allows the creation of HTML emails that can then be dispatched. Because of how fiddly HTML email display can be, I have an open-source WYSIWYG editor embedded.
The editor itself works fantastically, but with one problem that you may already be thinking. Basically, the page CSS is conflicting with the inline CSS generated by the text editor, which caused issues for things like tables.
Currently I am solving this on the "preview" page by placing the preview in an iframe but I am not entirely sure the best way to do this for the actual editor page. If I do it in an iframe, I would either have to put it into a separate page and alter the process slightly, or write some Javascript to strip the HTML out of the iframe on form submit.
It seems like there should be an easier way - has anyone solved this problem before?
Thanks.
I would switch to a different editor like CKEditor or TinyMCE that allows you to edit the whole HTML by using themselves an iframe for the edited contents. That way you can edit exactly what you will send.
One example: http://nightly.ckeditor.com/latest/ckeditor/_samples/fullpage.html
Change how you are targeting your selectors. If you have conflicts, then your CSS is not written efficiently.
Maybe use a root div with a specific ID and have everything cascade off of that.
Is there a simple way to save an HTML page that has an external stylesheet (1 or more) referenced but force all of the rules to be inserted into the page itself, inline? So basically I want to move all external rules onto the elements that they affect themselves.
For what it's worth, I'm using nearly every major browser (incase the solution is browser-specific), and I'm on Windows (incase it's OS-specific).
I'm assuming you've seen the online tools that are available like this one? This online tool (which I have not tested but looks like it works) gives you the option of providing a url or source code and shows warnings for cross-browser compatibilities with your styles.
I use a tool that does something like that, but it was written for Ruby and TextMate for Mac. It is released by Campaign Monitor as a way of preparing HTML emails. It brings all the rules from the stylesheet and makes them inline styles.
It might give you a good start. I'll keep looking.
TextMate Email Bundle
The piece that does the heavy lifting is the TamTam RubyGem which brings the CSS inline. However, it seems to only support one style element (not link elements). If you could work with those restrictions, you could get it to work on Windows using Ruby and a ruby script file. Not quite drag and drop I'm afraid.
i use chrome extension Save Page WE