Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

UTUSN

(72,405 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 11:15 PM Dec 2016

Win10/MS-Edge, can't Copy image URLs, heck, can't *find* URLs anymore!1 (EDIT: NEVER MIND!1)

Oh my ZEUS, my bad, I just tried Pasting the "Copy" into DU instead of to an e-mail, and it WORKS!1 Pasting into an e-mail gives the IMAGE, not the URL in the e-mail. Where I went wrong is that in Firefox/IE I would paste into e-mail to compose the post I was working on before pasting it all into DU. Thanks, and sorry for the bother!1

http:// i.imgur. com/UC8 srbW.jpg (delete the spaces in this typed URL, to get THIS: )


(ORIGINAL POST being struck-through: )
I've been using Edge for several months, after dumping Firefox after a year of frustration, and forever IE before that.

I've adjusted to Edge, and it didn't sink in at first that I was having trouble posting images with URLs the way I had done before.

Since the previous annoying adjusting to Edge have more or less subsided, this Copy URL problem has risen to the top of bugging me to get fixed.

In the past few days I've Googled for help with this and the instructions below just don't work, or rather, what they say is in the menus just isn't there.

Clicking "Copy" (not "Copy picture&quot does not copy a URL. If I Paste what I "copied" into an e-mail, it shows up as the whole image/picture instead of the URL, and the URL is what I need for pasting into DU.

Where it says to "select Inspect element from the menu" - uh, WHAT menu? The three dots in the upper right corner in Edge do not have "Inspect element".

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"] ----Oh, just thought of something I haven't tried: pasting the "Copy" into DU instead of into an e-mail. Will be back after trying this.[/FONT]

O.K., so my basic question is how to find URLs again, the "http" thing ending in ".jpg". And I do NOT want to switch to Firefox or other things just to do this, want to stay in Edge.
Thanks in advance, gosh I sound cranky.

******QUOTE********

Click on the image whose address you want to copy with the right mouse button.

Select Copy (not Copy picture) from the menu that has appeared.

If you do not see Copy in the menu:
Select Inspect element from the menu instead.

Look for the next <img> tag under DOM Explorer.
Double-click the URL that appears under the src attribute for that <img> tag.

Press Ctrl-C.

*******UNQUOTE*****

3 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Win10/MS-Edge, can't Copy image URLs, heck, can't *find* URLs anymore!1 (EDIT: NEVER MIND!1) (Original Post) UTUSN Dec 2016 OP
MS Edge is very much an uncomplete project. ManiacJoe Dec 2016 #1
ty. incomplete, so are they going to upgrade us? UTUSN Dec 2016 #2
Sure, but it may be win12 by the time it is complete ManiacJoe Dec 2016 #3

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
1. MS Edge is very much an uncomplete project.
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 02:56 AM
Dec 2016

IE11 is still available on win10.
Installing Firefox and Chrome are also options.

Latest Discussions»Help & Search»Computer Help and Support»Win10/MS-Edge, can't Copy...