All the Bookmarklets You Need in One Place

Bookmarklets are small pieces of JavaScript that you can store in you browser as a bookmark.  Normally they are used to add new functions to your browser in much the way you would use extensions or add-ins. They are however usually much more restricted in scope than extensions. So think of them as mini-extensions and you are on the right track.

Here's an example: If you copy and past the following bookmarklet into your browser address window and hit <enter> it will remove all images on this page and replace them with the text tag for the image. (I tested this in Firefox but it may not work in all browsers)

javascript:(function(){function%20toArray%20(c){var%20a,%20k;a=new%20Array;for%20(k=0;%20k%20<%20c.length;%20++k)a[k]=c[k];return%20a;}var%20images,%20img,%20altText;images=toArray(document.images);for%20(var%20i=0;%20i%20<%20images.length;%20++i){img=images[i];altText=document.createTextNode(img.alt);img.parentNode.replaceChild(altText,%20img)}})();

If you want to save this bookmarklet for use on other pages then drag it to you browser links bar or bookmark it. In other words, treat it in much the same way you would save a web page address (URL).

If you want another example check out this tutorial at Gizmo's Freeware that shows you how to use a bookmarklet to download a HD YouTube video.

There are thousand of bookmarklets and when I want one I normally go to squarefree.com which has a great collection.

I just saw over at ReadWriteWeb an article about another bookmark aggregation website called BMlet.com.

I checked it out and it's pretty impressive. Have a browse around; I'm sure you will find something you want.

http://www.bmlet.com/Bookmarklets/

Signing off

Rhiannon