To format the link of the active tab instantly to use in Markdown, reST, HTML, Text, Textile or other formats.
You can use keyboard shortcuts, context menus, or the toolbar button of Format Link extension to copy a link in the specified format. Before doing that, you can optionally select some text which may or may not contain a link.
The keyboard shortcut for "Copy a link in the default format" is shortcut for clicking the toolbar button. The link is copied in the default format and the popup is shown under the toolbar button.
Also there are shortcuts for copying in the link in the corresponding format regardless of the default format.
You can change shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts
Open the context menu and select the "Format Link as XXX" menu item. "XXX" in the menu item label changes as you change the default format by clicking the "Set as default" button in the popup page for the toolbar button.
If you check the "Create submenus" in the options page and save the options, submenus for each format are created under the "Format Link" context menu group.
When you press the toolbar button of "Format Link", the link is copied in the default format, the popup page becomes open, and the formatted text is shown in the text area.
If you want to copy the link in different format, you can press one of the radio buttons.
Also if you want to change the default format, you can press the "Set as default" button.
You can modify formats in [Tools] -> [Extensions] -> Clik "Options" link in "Format Link" Extension. In format settings, you can use the mini template language.
title
is the HTML page title.text
is the selected text if some text is selected,
the link text if you open the context menu over a link (see KNOWN LIMITATION below for link text),
or the page URL if no text is selected and you open the context menu not over a link.url
is the link if you open the context menu over a link,
the first link if selection contains a link, or the HTML page URL otherwise.variable.replace(new RegExp("foo", 'g'), "bar")
.s("\\[","\\[")
means replacing \[
with \\[
\
with \
like \\
,
and also you need to escape {
with \
like \{
. See the LaTeX example below.Here are examples:
[{{text.s("\\[","\\[").s("\\]","\\]")}}]({{url.s("\\)","%29")}})
{{text}} <{{url}}>`_
<a href="https://github.com/hnakamur/FormatLink-Chrome/blob/master/{{url.s("\"",""")}}">{{text.s("<","<")}}</a>
{{text}}\n{{url}}
"{{title.s("\"",""").s("\\[","[")}}":{{url}}
\\href\{{{url}}\}\{{{text}}\}
For technical details, see the following pages:
"<all_urls>"
.MIT License. Source codes are hosted at Github
I synthesized two icons (a pencil and a link) to produce icon.png
.
This extension "Format Link" are inspired by extensions below: