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A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark for a URL using the 'javascript:' protocol. The 'javascript:' prefix is followed by a snippet of JavaScript code. When invoked, instead of navigating to a new page, the script is executed within the context of the current page.

A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark for a URL using the javascript: protocol. The javascript: prefix is followed by a snippet of JavaScript code. When invoked, instead of navigating to a new page, the script is executed within the context of the current page.

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Mobile Safari Blocks Javascript in URL - Safari cannot run the script because JavaScript is not allowed to be used this way

I was researching how to create bookmarklets for use with mobile safari and I ran across this problem: I'm not sure why am unable to find any questions on this topic. And my Google searches came up with nothing as well. But it appears that iOS has…
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Change CSS of selected text using Javascript

I'm trying to make a JavaScript bookmarklet that will act as a highlighter, changing the background of selected text on a webpage to yellow when the bookmarklet is pressed. I'm using the following code to get the selected text, and it works fine,…
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How do I disable position:fixed in web pages?

This website: http://nautil.us/ has a really annoying header that is always on screen and won't scroll away. If I right-click on it and 'inspect element' in firefox, then I find that the css contains "position: fixed;", and if I untick this, the…
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scripting a google docs form submission

I'm trying to create a bookmarklet that parses a page and sends the results to a googledocs spreadsheet via a form that I've defined. The relevent bit of the script is: var form = document.createElement("form"); form.action =…
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Is there any difference in JavaScript injection and bookmarklet?

As per the Wikipedia article on Bookmarklets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet), the concept of Bookmarklets is: Web browsers use URIs for the href attribute of the tag and for bookmarks. The URI scheme, such as http:, file:, or ftp:,…
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javascript bookmarklet does not work in new tab in chrome

I have this javascript bookmarklet This appends the prompted value to www.oracle.com and opens that url in tab. javascript:window.location.href='http://www.oracle.com/'+prompt("Please enter your input:", "exadata"); In firefox, this works fine. If…
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Bookmarklet to open a new window forwards current window to [Object Window]?

I am using a small bookmarklet which opens a webpage in a new window. It works properly on chrome. However, when I use the same in Firefox it opens a new window with new web page but the page on which this bookmarklet was clicked is forwarded to…
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Why setTimeout() function runs only once?

I am making a javascript bookmarklet that resizes all images, periodically. javascript: function x(){ for(i=0;i<=document.getElementsByTagName('img').length;i++) document.getElementsByTagName('img')[i].width+=1; }; t =…
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Create bookmarklet to fill form

I want to create a bookmarklet that fills in 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th text box with text so I can use the tool on the site more easily, because I use it frequently & it doesn't remember my input. These are the ones with this text in front "Vertrek…
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Ajax call from Bookmarklet

I am trying to create a bookmarklet that, upon clicking, would request some information from the user (a url and a couple other fields in this case) and then send that data to a php page on my server and then display the result. I would like to do…
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Bookmarklet: Append hidden iframe to page and load url

I have a bookmarklet for resetting my router. I just need to visit and let the page finish loading, then my router starts…
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Bookmarklet to make URL from Clipboard content

I'm trying to make a Bookmarklet to grab an id value from the Clipboard, and navigate to a URL that is built with that id. javascript:(function(){ window.location="index.php?module=Accounts&action=DetailView&record=" +…
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Bookmarklet security considerations, CSRF, hashed key

My bookmarklet can be called from any website and basically allows the user to insert a row into his collection from afar - if he is logged in. Now I want to enable CSRF protection for my site and since a bookmarklet is basically non-forged cross…
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How to CSS sandbox/reset an entire DIV area in the current page?

We are developing a bookmarklet, and when the bookmarklet loads on different websites, eg: cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, yahoo.com it displays in various styles and we have struggle to reset these styles. The bookmarklet content is in the current page DOM and…
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Debugging bookmarklets in Firefox

I would like to debug bookmarklets. How can I do this? Preferably in Firefox. Bookmarklets has only one line of code so direct debugging them is impracticable. If I create "script" tag with code which I send from bookmarklet, code from this "script"…
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