Ever wanted to edit a webpage to say whatever you wanted it too? So did other people.

The good people at Mosio pinged me yesterday with this awesome tid-bit from their summer intern. Check out how you can modify ANY website in FireFox or Internet Explorer. It is so simple it might blow your mind!
- Step 1: go to a website you would like to mess around in
- Step 2: in the address paste this line
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true‘; document.designMode=’on’; void 0
- Step 3: highlight and play with the page as if you were in Microsoft word.
Check out their changes to AskTheAdmin below:

Lets zoom in and check out their changes to AskTheAdmin…

I then went berserk modifying sites… Taking screen shots of modified websites and sending them along. Great tip Jay! Did you guys know about this?
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about 3 years ago
That's awesome! Here is an auto hot key script that does the above (to learn more about auto hot key: http://www.autohotkey.com/) “>http://www.autohotkey.com/) It goes to the address bar, replaces the web address with the Javascript line and puts back the original address, all you have to press is windows key + 'B' (you can change this to your liking) #b:: Send ^l Send ^x Send javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0{enter} Send ^l Send ^v return
about 3 years ago
That's awesome! Here is an auto hot key script that does the above (to learn more about auto hot key: http://www.autohotkey.com/) “>http://www.autohotkey.com/) It goes to the address bar, replaces the web address with the Javascript line and puts back the original address, all you have to press is windows key + 'B' (you can change this to your liking) #b:: Send ^l Send ^x Send javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0{enter} Send ^l Send ^v return
about 3 years ago
I feel an autoHotKey post coming up! <Hint Hint Mr. Admin>
about 3 years ago
And here's a way to actually make this useful. Make the javascript link a bookmarklet. Open a new tab, then click the bookmarklet, for an instant blank, editable page. Good for jotting down quick notes that don't need to be saved.
about 3 years ago
that was cool
about 3 years ago
it was a neat little find