Comments on: How to do a bookmarklet with javascript

By: How to execute javascript code directly in your browser | Javascript Kata

How to execute javascript code directly in your browser | Javascript Kata — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:21:08 +0000

[...] if you want to write a bookmarklet, you’ll probably use this [...]

By: Corey Hollaway

Corey Hollaway — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:03:50 +0000

Mistake on last comment! For Windows Firefox you
need double quotes for the strings! Put all of
the code below on _one_ line in the address
bar or a bookmark URL:

javascript:
document.getElementsByTagName(“body”)[0]
.style.background
= “#fff none”; void(0);

By: Corey Hollaway

Corey Hollaway — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:25:13 +0000

Beautiful post!! Thank you for sharing!

For the folks that put crazy background images on their myspace/youtube pages, you can make the background white:
javascript:document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].style.background=’#fff none’;void(0);
)

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:12:16 +0000

Or you can use this site:

http://www.jsquickmark.com/

By: All in a days work…

All in a days work… — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:27:26 +0000

[...] How to do a bookmarklet with JavaScript How do you execute a ‘complex’ app on a page utilizing less than 2083 characters (IE’s address bar limit)? Remember, the browser has complete control over a page so you can import JavaScript files into it (without being stopped by security)! (tags: Bookmarklets JavaScript Security) [...]

By: pdp

pdp — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:05:45 +0000

or you can use a tool like Technika to ease the bookmarklet development

http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/technika/

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:24:53 +0000

Hey, this is great. I love the fact that you can include a js source file in the bookmarklet.