Right-Click Basics

One of my downline recently asked me a question that is so simple, yet important, that it took me aback.

"How do I copy/paste a link?"

I explained this to him and further learned that he had no idea of the right-click menus available. Hmph. I admit, there was a time when I hadn't realized how useful this little add-on could be (though that was a LONG time ago). And maybe it's just me (and him).

In the major browsers, right-click menus have long been added to create short cuts to common operations such as cut, paste, select all, copy, etc. In fact, a user can right-click on virtually any active part of their screen and find some kind of short cut menu to help them. And if you right-click on a basic website, you might find a "veritible plethora" (heehee-- don't have much chance to use that term) of options to choose from.

Right-click menus have long existed in programs such as Excel, Word and PhotoShop. They were also added to options within many of the browsers -- probably long ago, as well. But, you know, because they're rarely mentioned, I realized many people -- especially casual users of the internet -- may never have discovered these things.

So I add this to the list of tidbits worth noting in HTML coding, only because, to fail to mention it presumes a universal knowledge of it. And I can't think WHAT, if anything besides breathing and eating, has ever been truly universal, and certainly not when it comes to computers!--mo