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Microsoft Edge has this feature called Web Select (Ctrl+Shift+X) which allows you to highlight any part of a webpage, be it text and image, then lets you copy it. I really liked how they implemented it where it's almost like you're taking a screenshot by drawing a rectangle on the webpage and anything covered by the rectangle gets copied.

I was wondering if there's a way to do this with other Chromium-based browsers, either via extension or some developer tool?

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  • There might be an extension that has similar features but the exact functionality you described at this time is an Edge only feature
    – Ramhound
    Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 2:47

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Web Select is a Microsoft invention, available only on Edge.

Perhaps you can do similarly using the Chrome extension Html Scan, described as:

Html Scan helps to copy html code, text instantly in any webpages with one click.

Otherwise, to get the HTML would require using Ctrl+U to get whole page source. Or extract the HTML of a single object using the Developer Tools.

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  • I'm not necessarily looking for the HTML source, but more being able to draw a rectangle to "select" almost any portion of a webpage to copy it.
    – user9564371
    Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 16:44
  • Copy in what sense? If as an image, quite a few products can do that.
    – harrymc
    Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 17:36

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