Easy selecting part of url...

Easy selecting part of url...

OK, I really would like this nad I think it could be really nice and helpful. So, the basic idea is to easy select one part of url till the slash ( / ).

I'll show you.

I'm currently here http://my.opera.com/community/forums/newtopic.dml?action=newtopic&forum=24 and i want to select just his part /newtopic.dml?action=newtopic&forum=24... To do so I must click my moue button and drag it. It would be really great to make some tool to select it with one click. So it could work to select that part alone, or something like two part together (forums/newtopic.dml?action=newtopic&forum=24) etc...

What do you think?

There is a FireFox extension that has behaviour similar to this... LocationBar

Sadly the homepage doesn't really explain the behaviour very clearly (easier to install it - if you have FF).

When the mouse moves into the address bar the URL becomes a breadcrumb trail that is click-able, broken up at each /

Originally posted by Ampa:

When the mouse moves into the address bar the URL becomes a breadcrumb trail that is click-able, broken up at each /

try this :
BreadCrumb URL

I take it you are using Opera in Windows? This is a problem that I have had with the Windows version for a while. In Mac this is not the case. If you double click within a URL it selects segments divided by some pretty standard symbols (like slashes or dots) and you can drag in either direction and select ajoining segments (like selecting words in a text document).

Yes, I would like to see the Windows version add this intuitive and useful behavior. I don't recall how it behaves in Linux.

+1

Been finding this for ages.

Thanks man! Thumbs up !

By the way, is there way to bookmark pages on my.Opera so I don't have to search for it when I log on from another machine ?

@ dapxin: make links in your blog. It has a Links page, or you can make a blog entry called Utility or something and put links on it.

+1 to implement this to Opera as default behavior.

+1

Originally posted by dapxin:

By the way, is there way to bookmark pages on my.Opera so I don't have to search for it when I log on from another machine ?

Spotlights should work easily too.

dapxin: hot off the presses - the my.opera redesign enables onsite bookmark storage using Link. Bookmarks item on the My page dropdown.

Originally posted by AyushJ:

try this :
BreadCrumb URL

That is great, but I would like to change its appearance somewhat. I only have a very limited knowledge of these things so I'd appreciate your help.

I have changed the following part of the code:

t={
position : 'fixed',
bottom : '0',
right : '0',
width : 'auto',
height : 'auto',
opacity : '0.25',
border : '1px dashed Silver',
background: 'white'              }

But there are three other things I want to change, two of them trivial but the last I think would be a great addition:

1. Disable the hyperlink's "visited" state (e.g. in Google searches so all the text stays blue instead of having purple sections)
   
2. Unbold the "/". E.g. (for this page) instead of my.opera.com/community/forums make it my.opera.com/community/forums
   
3. Make it so when you mouse over the BreadCrumb box the opacity changes to 1.0 or 0.9
   

I think these would make it close to perfect!

Has anyone got a copy of this, please? Unfortunately the snipurl.com goes to a page saying "This snipurl has been deleted or is private" - if someone could upload a copy as an attachment or something it would be much appreciated.

cheers,

- pgl

Aha - found it, thanks to the Wayback Machine (at least, found the URL - Wayback couldn't retrieve the script from its archive apparently, but it gave me the location of the file AyushJ had uploaded to files.myopera.com).

Hooray!

BreadCrumb_URL.js

Teensy tiny update to Ayush' script: it no longer adds a trailing slash to the last element of the URL.

BreadCrumb_URL.js

Cosmestic update for breadcrumb script.

1. text is center
2. bar has it own background color.

feature.PNG

Still waiting for this to conform across platforms...

Say it with me: single-click, double-click, triple-click.