In Mozilla Firefox, users may highlight only certain rows, columns, or cells of an HTML table by holding down the Ctrl on the keyboard and click each cell individually. Once you have selected the appropriate cells, you can copy and paste their text into another program, such as a text editor or word processor. Additionally, clicking and dragging the mouse up or down a column, or left or right through a row achieves a similar effect.

Further explanation

To select data in the second column of the following HTML table, hold down Ctrl and click the Example 2 cell and drag down to Four. Once selected press Ctrl+C to copy the data, and then Ctrl+V to paste it elsewhere.

Unfortunately, this tip only works in Firefox. Other browsers, such as Chrome and Internet Explorer, do not support this feature.

  • See our cell, column, row, and table definitions for further information and related links on these terms.