How to select (& copy) only a part of a linked text?

Question

Let’s take this link as an example:

The artist John Doe shows us his cat!

I want to copy the text "John Doe" only.

Is it possible somehow?

The problem is that I can't place my cursor in the text, as then the link gets activated.

As a workaround I copy the whole text, paste it somewhere and cut out the relevant part.

Answer 1

To select link text in Firefox, hold Alt while dragging the mouse.

Note that this does not currently work in Chrome or Safari.

Answer 2

If you click right above the link and drag it will select part of it. This probably works in a most browsers but I only tested it in Chrome on Windows.