About These Links
An Explanation of These Buttons

About These Links
This topmost button is the link which opens the page you are currently viewing.

The next four copy various forms of link and other text related to the page from which it was called. Successful copying is indicated by the message Copied! which appears briefly at the bottom of the window.
Note that the page which is copied is that on which the Copy Links button was most recently clicked; if you were planning to copy the link to a dance page but clicked the link to see this page first, you will need to go back to the dance page and click Copy Links from there, not from here.

Copy Hyperlink (HTML)
This button copies a ready-made HTML hyperlink referencing the page you were on when you clicked it. It includes both the title and the link itself.
This hyperlink is suitable for pasting into a website, a blog or anywhere else which interprets HTML. To the end-user, it will display the title of the page as clickable text (underlined in most implementations); clicking leads to that original page.
Note that this is not likely to produce the desired result when the destination is a word processor or an e-mail editor; use Copy Smart Hyperlink (Rich), below, instead.

Taking the Dance Instructions page with web page name Pelorus Jack as an example, this is what the copied link would look like when pasted to the destination file:
<a href="https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/pelorus-jack.html">Pelorus Jack</a>

In this example, only the page name will be shown by a browser program on the page where the link is pasted. With the browser you are currently using, it will appear like this:
Pelorus Jack
but when clicked (try it), it takes the user to the webpage at
https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/pelorus-jack.html.

Copy Link (URL)
This button copies only the web address, known as the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), of the current page. The URL is the unique identifier which is used to locate and access any specific page or resource on the internet. You can paste the URL into a document or a message; a recipient can copy and paste it into a web browser and so go direct to the target page.

With the same example as above, this is what the copied link would look like when pasted into the destination:
https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/pelorus-jack.html

In this example, exactly the text shown above will appear where you paste it. It will be plain text, not a clickable link, unless the application you paste into automatically turns URLs into links.

Copy Page Title
This button copies only the target page title, without any link. It is useful if you want to refer to the page title by name only, for example in a document intended exclusively for printing.

This is what the copied text would look like when pasted into the destination:
Pelorus Jack
though the font will depend on the particular form of pasting you chose.

Copy Smart Hyperlink (Rich)
Although some applications automatically treat what is produced by Copy Hyperlink (HTML), above, as a hyperlink, Microsoft Word, most other word processors and most e-mail editors do not; they need extra information (called meta-data) about the text in order to be persuaded to treat it as a hyperlink rather than as the underlying text in HTML format. This button provides exactly that.
Note, however, that this form of hyperlink is not suitable for a web file or offline file which is to be viewed with a browser program.

Taking the Dance Instructions page for Pelorus Jack as an example, this is what the visible part of the copied link would look like when pasted to the destination:
Pelorus Jack: https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/pelorus-jack.html

Provided the destination of the pasting is appropriate, the result looks and behaves like any hyperlink. In this example, it would appear like this:
Pelorus Jack
though the font will depend on the particular form of pasting you chose.
When clicked, it takes the user to the webpage at
https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/pelorus-jack.html.

Making a Dance List Linkable
Clicking this button invokes a page of advice on adapting the process of creating an event flyer or a personal dances list so that, in the online version, each listed dance is linked to the appropriate Dance Instructions on this site.

It also covers some other usage of copied hyperlinks.

Close
This button closes only the popup window, restoring the page from which it had been invoked by using the navigation bar button, Copy Links.

The window is also closed automatically when you click outside it.