How to copy and paste a website address on an Android smartphone
This article explains how to copy and paste a website address (URL) when you are using the Chrome browser on an Android smartphone.
Copy and paste on an Android phone
When you are using an Android cellphone, the usual way to copy-and-paste text is to "long-click" on one word, and after it is selected, drag the selector-bars at either end to select more of the text.
After this, you have options on a list at the very top of the screen to cut, copy and page.
But this doesn't work on the Chrome browser's address-bar, ie the place where you type in website addresses, or see the address which your currently viewed pages has.
Here, there is no long-click, and you have to use a slightly different approach.
How to copy a web-address on a Smartphone using Google Android and Chrome
1 Inside Chrome, go to the website and page that you want to copy the address from.
2 From the top right handcorner, choose the Overflow menu button: this is three vertical dots
3 From the menu that opens, choose Share
4 choose Copy to clipboard from the list of sharing options.
Step 1: Choose Share
Step 2: copy-to-clipboard
Now, when you go into other applications and pages, you can long-press, and a small PASTE button will appear. Click this - and watch your copied link get pasted.
Troubleshooting
Remember that if it's a Blogger site that the link came from, you may need to remove the "/?m=1" from the end of the URL, for the sake of non-mobile users of the place where you are pasting the link.
