Show URL when hovering and holding control key?

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Nathan101
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Show URL when hovering and holding control key?

Post by Nathan101 »

The following is the contents of my userContent.css for Thunderbird. It's purpose is to display a little balloon showing the URL of a link when hovered over. It works well but I would like to modify its functionality by having it only work when the control (or shift) key is held down. Anyone know how to do this? Thank you

/* show url beneath link when hovering over link */
a[href]:hover {
text-decoration: none !important;
}
a[href]:hover:after {
display: block;
position: relative;
border-radius: 10px;
content: attr(href);
padding: 1px 10px;
font-size: 15px !important;
font-family: sans-serif !important;
text-align: left !important;
background-color: #555 !important;
color: #EEE !important;
}
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Re: Show URL when hovering and holding control key?

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Moving this to Thunderbird Support...
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lithopsian
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Re: Show URL when hovering and holding control key?

Post by lithopsian »

Mozilla doesn't have a "keypress" pseudo-selector, so you'd need something in javascript. One was is to add a little script to put an attribute or class on the element when the right conditions are met (mouseover plus ctrl key?) and then let CSS do the rest.
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