Simpler, shorter, for use in your Free Nodelet:

This node's id: [id://`id`]

Not my original work, but I've forgotten whom to credit. :-(

This displays the id of the top node in the currently rendered part of a thread;, the nodes below now contain a c&p'able id in their title bars (perhaps dependant on your display settings?)

> the nodes below now contain a c&p'able id in their title bars (perhaps dependant on your display settings?)

yes I noticed that the sub nodes have a c&p-id following the title, but this is not the case for the top node where I need it the most.

Anyway my second JS-Solution works fine! :)

For instance now I can easily cite:

Help for Free Nodelet Settings

and

Free Nodelet gets templating features

(...which I haven't noticed before :-( )

Cheers Rolf

The Approval nodelet usually has such a copiable reference, though it only appears for writeups, not for infrastructure nodes. (Update: so does the Node Status nodelet.)

However, as the most common reason why I want to copy such a link is refferring to it in a chatterbox message, I have a chatterbox talk form in my free nodelet that's pre-filled with the link. This way, I don't even have to copy, I just write text around it. Here's the relevant source from my Free Nodelet Settings:

<form method="post" action="?"><font size="-4"><input type="hidden" na
+me="node_id" value="`id`" /><input type="hidden" name="op" value="mes
+sage" /><input type="text" name="message" value="&#x5bid://`id`&#x5d"
+ size="26" maxlength="255" /><input type="submit" name="message_send"
+ value="talk"/></font></form>
<br>
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hihi, funny idea =)

but having an additional textarea flowting around is not quite what I need, I mostly use a netbook and need every pixel I can get.

... but hmm I could change the JS-code such that an additional button appears to allow appending the link to the CB Nodelet...

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: I've put the following code into window.onload

document.getElementById("talkbox").value+="`[id://`id``]";

Like this the pages CB-area is preloaded with the local ID.

I normally use the CB-Sidebar... so I can ignore it in most cases.

UPDATE: no ... disabled this again, I need the talk button to delete msgs.

<script> 
var search=location.search; 
var id=search.match(/\Wnode_id=(\d+).*/);
if ( id.length>0) {document.writeln("`[id://"+id`[1`]+"`]")}
</script>
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UPDATE:

this will replace the link text in place

<script>
var tbar=document.getElementById('titlebar-bottom');
tbar.innerHTML=tbar.innerHTML.replace(/#(<a.*?>)(\d{4,10})(<\/a>)/,"$1
+`[id://$2`]$3")
</script>
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please note, the backquotes before brackets (`[) are needed to escape them from the monastery markup in the Free Nodelet Settings. If you wanna use this code in other JS mechanisms you have to strip them.