Selecting the Unselectable

Ever come across a page where you couldn’t select some text or save an image?  Usually it’s due to page having something transparent stacked on top of whatever you’re trying to work with. While I urge you to respect copyright, sometimes you want to save an image for reference or whatever.

The quick way to get around these image/text selection issues is to turn off the style sheet, find the element in the unstyled markup and save/copy.  Here’s how to toggle style sheets in the three main browsers:

Firefox:
View > Page Style > No Style

Safari:
Develop > Disable Styles

Internet Explorer 8:
F12 > Disable > CSS

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