BookMarklet

It turns out that you can put JavaScript in bookmarks just by making the "protocol" part of the URL "javascript". These bookmarks can consequently be used as a kind of macro to extend the surf and search capabilities of WebBrowsers. Things that bookmarklets can do include:

• Modifying the way you see someone else's webpage
• Extracting data from a webpage
• Searching more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine
• Navigating in new ways

Examples:

• UserName - for setting a WikiWikiWeb UserName cookie
• WikiBookMarkletExamples - Misc examples
• WikiBookmarklet - for enhancing the use of this wiki
• TheAsdfBookmarklet - for the lazy HTML form user
• DictionaryBookmarklet
• NextNumberBookmarklet
• WaybackMachine

• http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ - A range of utility bookmarklets, grouped into categories such as Text and Data, Validation, Search, LogAnalysis, WebDevelopment and so on.
• http://www.bookmarklets.com/ has a large number of bookmarklets, though not all are useful.

Instructions:

• Copy the text of the link, say: javascript:alert("foo")
• Create a new bookmark, probably somewhere on your "Personal Toolbar"
• Set the URL to the whole thing -- javascript:alert("foo")
• Enjoy (although that particular one is not very enjoyable).

Contributors: FridemarPache, a WikiGnome

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