Bookmarklet highlighted text recognition

  • mayurpatel

    (@mayurpatel)


    20 years, 8 months ago

    I see that the bookmarklet will actually “recognize” the page title when you use the “press it” function on a page (I’ve turned this off because it annoys me to have to delete the title it gives you and then enter my own).

    Anyway, I was wondering if there was a way in which I could highlight some text on a page, suppose a paragraph from an article, and then hit “press it” so that the highlighted text is automatically inserted into the post.

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  • tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah. That’s exactly what the bookmarklet is supposed to do. You use your mouse to highlight the text you want and then hit “press it” and it should do exactly that. OK. I take that back. It works the way you want it to if you are using Firefox browser. I have no idea if it works in Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.

    I did notice at one version a while back that this function was broken. Are you using the latest version (1.5.1.3)?

    Thread Starter mayurpatel

    (@mayurpatel)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I’m actually using explorer (shame on me, I know) but I suppose it is not working in IE. I’ve been searching for bookmarklet code for other items around the net but I see that the code to place highlighted text is already in the wordpress code. I’m using 1.5.1.2 (only because I have edited core files and don’t feel like figuring out which ones I changed).

    I just tried in FF and you are right, it works fine. Hmmm… so it doesn’t work at all for IE?

    Thread Starter mayurpatel

    (@mayurpatel)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Another thing, is there a way to reorder the way the post is placed? For example, right now, clicking “press it” in FF places the pages hyperlink followed by the highlighted text. Is there a way to place the text first and then the link?

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