View Link Background Image

This is a very simple Firefox extension that allows you to view the background image of a link by right-clicking on it just as you can with most other HTML elements. The majority of the credit for this extension goes to James Booker. For the full story behind it, read the blog post.

Install the View Link Background Image Extension

Try it out

After installing the extension, restart Firefox, return to this page and right-click on each of the white link blocks below.

  1. On the first one, you should see a new context menu item called
    "View Link Background Image".
  2. The second square looks identical, but the background image is on the list item and not the link itself. If the extension doesn't find a background-image on the link, it will check for a background-image on the parent element. If there is one, it will return that image when you click "View Parent Background Image".
  3. The last square doesn't have a background image on the link, nor on it's parent list item. Therefore the "View Link Background Image" context menu item is disabled.