html - How can I track which links I go to in chrome?

06
2013-12
  • fwaokda

    I am clicking a button on a site and I want to see what link it's actually executing. However the button is simply something like this...

    <input type="image" name="btnNav1" id="btnNav1" title="view older" src="img/site/prev-ribbon.jpg" alt="view older">

    so there is now "href" tag. Is the a chrome extension or a method to record the event once I click the button and see what the "link" being executed is? Or is this some time of server side activity that cannot be monitored?

    Thanks!

    • Answers
  • TCadd

    Short answer: You cannot easily do it.

    The link is being generated via JavaScript or other scripting language most likely, and as such you won't get much to tell you where is goes. Trying to think of a way to track this in all circumstances is basically giving me a headache - you can get the individual links from the JS, but that is a lot of extra work, and probably not worth it unless you have a real need to know this info.

    HTH, I know it isn't the answer you wanted.


    • Related Question

    windows 7 - How do I select a hyperlink as text in a browser?
  • xiaodai

    Possible Duplicate:
    How to Select Hyperlink Text in Google Chrome?

    Every now and then you just want to copy some text that is a hyperlink. For example, the author is John O'Reilly and there's a hyperlink behind it that links to the author's page. But all I want is to select the words "John O'Reilly". Sometimes this is tricky to do. Is there some sort of keystroke that can disable the hyperlinks temporarily? For example, if you hold shift+ctrl+alt then you can click on a hyperlink and not get redirected so you can choose the text?

    I am using Windows 7 and Chrome


    • Related Answers
  • sblair

    If you are using Chrome, you can right click on the link, select Inspect element, and double click on the text between the <a> </a> tags, followed by Ctrl + C. It's not ideal, but can be less fiddly than selecting the text with the mouse.

  • William Hilsum

    Personally, I just drag the cursor over the text I want and hit Ctrl+C, It works 99% of the time, however, I would be interested to see if anyone else comes up with a better solution!

    Edit -

    On the odd occasion when you can't drag around an exact hyperlink for some reason (e.g. weird CSS causing problems) I try and copy more than is needed then paste into notepad and then copy the exact bit I need.

    In the worst case scenario, I do a Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C in order to copy the entire page... some fancy graphical sites really have problems selecting bits of text - but I have not done this in some time.

  • variant

    If you use Firefox, you can use the Copy Plain Text add-on (most recent version available here). This will allow you to select text and copy the basic text as it is via a right-click.

    If you're like me and can't be bothered to hit Ctrl+C each time, you can also install the AutoCopy add-on. After installing Copy Plain Text, you'll need to check off the box in AutoCopy's options to enable the plain text feature.

  • Mike Christiansen

    I copy it into the run dialog, which converts rich text to plain text.

    Then I copy from the run dialog to the application.

    If you'd like, I can write a quick program to convert the contents of the clipboard to plain text, so it works for all applications?