Highlighting a web page then saving printing?

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markg2
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Highlighting a web page then saving printing?

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I've never had success with addons, or at least the ones I've tried in the past, that are supposed to let you highlight sections of a website webpage, then have those highlights 'stick' when you either print or save the page(s).

Is there an addon that does this with reasonable intuitiveness?

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Moving this to Firefox Support...
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Copying just a section of text should work without an extension or add-on by highlighting the text and with a right click hit the copy in the popup menu.
If the text is in an image you would have to right click on the image and use save image as. .
If it is an area of the page with a mix of images and text you may have to right click with the cursor in an empty area and select save the page which triggers . . .
. . . a panel with options for what to save in the lower right of the panel.
You could then print after saving.
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Not sure if this helps but this snipping tool in Windows helps me in a number of cases....

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... creenshots
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See if this bookmarklet will do what you need, https://www.printwhatyoulike.com/bookmarklet.
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Re: Highlighting a web page then saving printing?

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I got the following bookmarklet to work with Firefox.

Bookmarklet to highlight selected word
http://gist.github.com/agibsonsw/a993c14ee172dfeb4d96

Bookmarkleter
http://chriszarate.github.io/bookmarkleter

I had to set the following option to get the highlights to stick.

File > Page Setup > Format & Options > [check] Print Background (color & images)

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AMO search results for hightlight select
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/searc ... t%20select

TextMarker Go
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/textmarker-go
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Here's another one you may like to try out...
> https://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/
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