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Content Selection Menu


Diigo's Content Selection Menu makes it even easier to interact with web contents you are reading. With exactly one-click, you can highlight, look up in dictionaries, find maps,  copy, forward, etc...  To see how it works, you first have to make sure it is turned on in the toolbar options:



Once enabled, a pull-down menu will show up as soon as you select any text on a webpage, as follows:



Obviously, you can now Diigo, Search, or Copy, with just one-click. Diigo and Search and their submenu is the same as in the context menu.

Copy and Its Submenu




 Result
Copy - Without format selected text is copied to your clipboard, and ready for your editing use
Copy - With format selected text along with its html format is copied to your clipboard
Particularly worth noting is the "copy without format" feature, which is different from the browser's build-in Copy functionality. This feature is especially useful when you want to copy and paste paragraphs from webpages to a word processor.