1418424 - menus.OnClickData should have the imageText property

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, enhancement, P5)

Description

[kernp25]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20171114220116



Actual results:

No imageText [1] in menus.OnClickData [2].

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/modules/ContextMenu.jsm#819
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/menus/OnClickData


Expected results:

It would be helpful, if the menus.OnClickData [1] could have the imageText property [2]. This allows WebExtensions to get the text (e.g. title or alt text) from the image.

Then a WebExtension could, for example, copy the image text to the clipboard.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/menus/OnClickData
[2] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/modules/ContextMenu.jsm#819

Comment 1

[William Groenendijk]

At the moment, the value of an image's alt-attribute is included in both menus.OnClickData.linkText and menus.OnClickData.selectionText.

As developer of an add-on[1] that copies the link text and location to the clipboard, it would be nice to have imageText available, to add better support for copying images.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-text-and-location-copier/

Comment 2

[kernp25]

Here is a updated link:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f5f1c3f294f89cfd242c3af9eb2c40d19d5e04e7/browser/modules/ContextMenu.jsm#818

Comment 3

[Mike Conca [:mconca]]

Does Bug 1325814 provide access to the imageText via a CSS selector?

Comment 4

[kernp25]

I agree that, we can use a content script for this.

Comment 5

[Mike Conca [:mconca]]

Thanks, kernp25.  Marking this as a wontfix and referring to Bug 1325814.