CoLT Tip (HTML Hyperlink List Item)

Introduction

The CoLT add-on for Firefox is an essential tool for quickly capturing and reposting hyperlinks as plain text or in HTML format. The following demonstrates how to customize CoLT to capture a hyperlink to the clipboard wrapped as a HTML formatted list item. Of course, this tip is primarily useful for those who are like to write in pure HTML instead of using a WSIWIG editor.

Setup

1. Select Tools->Add-ons from the Firefox main menu.
2. Select the CoLT add-on (assuming you already have it installed) and click the “Preferences” button.
3. Click the “Add” button.
4. Enter “HTML Hyperlink List Item” for the “Menu Label”.
5. Enter “<li>%T</li>” for the “Format”. You should have something that looks a bit like this:
   
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6. Click the “OK” button to finish.

Usage

1. Browse to my Firefox page (or use the hyperlinks found in this post).
2. Find the CoLT hyperlink and right-click on it to bring up the pop-up menu as shown here:
   
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3. The result (as pasted from the clipboard) will look like this: <li>CoLT</li>.

As you can see, there are many ways to customize CoLT for your tastes, this just happens to be one setting that I use quite often.

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