Support simple backticks with copy feature

[mseibert]

What version of starlight are you using?

0.5.0

What is your idea?

Today you can copy code when using three backticks:

This text can easily be copied from within the interface with the button on the right hand side.

When you only use one backtick there is a highlighting but no support for copying. I would want to offer this support e.g. on hover over this area.

Why is this feature necessary?

All documentation is using a lot of stuff that needs to be copy and pasted into the documented software. It's not always blocks of codes. Often it's only a variable or a parameter. It would be bloated to always use a big box in such circumstances.

If you want to make the copy help less intrusive you could activate the copy button only after half a second of hovering. So that it does not appear inadvertently when the user is not searching for a copy feature.

Do you have examples of this feature in other projects?

I have not seen this implemented yet.

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this feature.

[mseibert]

You're looking for one that works for inline code? I don't think I've ever seen that. I'm sure it's doable, but will require adding js to every page.

Eh, I understand. That's probably nothing anyone would want in an Astro environment. #hm